“The baze is our workstation, we report here every day”—Understanding the Role of Youth Practices in Urban Subculture

What is it about?

The study "The baze is our workstation, we report here every day" - Understanding the role of youth practices in urban subculture" is a sociolinguistic account of emerging youth practices in Nairobi whose primary goal is to document and characterize these practices as emerging forms of linguistic market place where youths capitalize on material culture such as music and language to index certain social identities while dealing with local challenges such as unemployment and high coast of living.

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