Hip Hop Matters - the Sociopolitical Message of Hip Hop Music in the #BlackLivesMatter Era
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mehring, F. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Munteán, L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Scharn, L.M. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-07-13 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research project aims to discover the sociopolitical message of hip hop music from 2013 to today: hip hop of the ‘#BlackLivesMatter Era’. The thesis argues that analyzing hip hop songs helps to reveal key issues in America’s sociopolitical environment. The aspects explored are (the history of) hip hop music as a protest genre, themes in hip hop music from the 1980s, and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. Through finally analyzing case studies of Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole and connecting these analyses to #BlackLivesMatter rhetoric, this thesis concludes that the sociopolitical message of hip hop music in the #BlackLivesMatter Era is that black lives matter and that changing America’s racist society is necessary. Keywords: hip hop music, protest music, racism, #BlackLivesMatter Movement, N.W.A., Public Enemy, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/8345 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Letteren | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Amerikanistiek | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuur | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Bachelor | en_US |
| dc.title | Hip Hop Matters - the Sociopolitical Message of Hip Hop Music in the #BlackLivesMatter Era | en_US |
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