„Dla jednych trutką, a dla innych karmą” – kontestacja w tekstach polskiego hip-hopu

• Authors: Michał Żmuda
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The article deals with the topic of contestation in hip-hop songs. The author goes through historical sources that have created hip-hop and notices that this subculture has been built upon cultural tradition of contestation. This fact allows to include hip-hop in a wider aspect. The analysis of selected examples shows how the subculture in question creates the image and the concept of power. The author observes that the hip-hop subject defines social reality as a cause of imprisonment. The study of rappers’ textual self-creations allows to deduce that they claim to know the only path to freedom. As a result, hip-hop culture is constructed around the dichotomy, exemplified in a division into “us” and “them”. The author detects that hip-hop songs use propaganda language and war stylizations, thus they foreshadow and fight for a total reformation of power scheme.

Keywords

PL

hip-hop, song, subculture, power, contestation, rebellion, music texts

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Konteksty Kultury
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4

Dates

published

2014

online

2014-12-09

Contributors

author

Michał Żmuda