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Montreal’s Franglais Rap: Multi-Culti Creativity Or Threat To The Survival Of French In North America?

WORDS Posted: April 8, 2020 12:04 pm

“To their legions of fans, the groups give voice to the bilingual vernacular of a multicultural city, marinated by its past French and British rulers, the forces of globalization and successive waves of immigration. … But they have also spawned a backlash in Quebec, … where critics have castigated them as self-colonizers who are ‘creolizing’ the French language and threatening its future.” – The New York Times

WORDS Published: 04.07.20

Read the story in New York Times Published: 04.07.20

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