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Postawy hip-hopowców wobec własnej podkultury. W jaki sposób widzą siebie hip-hopowcy?

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Szulc M.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2014

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issue 3(103)

313-339

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This article attempts to answer the questions: how hip-hop subculture participants perceive their own environment, how to refer to the stereotypes about themselves and what values they most identify with. Author’s interest in the subject stems from the mnearly 20-year presence in hip-hop in Poland and everyday and abusive relationships often convinced of hip-hop to the areas of social pathology. The study involved 60 people who identify with the subculture of hip-hop teenagers aged 16 – 18 years in the majority of high school students. The research method was a structured interview. The results show an interesting and internally varied image of hip-hop subculture. Interesting may be differences in views on the environment from the perspective of respondents gender. Girls look more critically on their own subculture and often admit that the group use drugs and violence occurs. Respondents represent a complex picture of the world highlighting the significance of musical texts in the description of their reality. Participants evaluate their own subculture rather as a happy people, with life goals related to the plans of other ordinary teenagers. Everyone in hip-hop subculture express aversion to the police and presenting its own internal code of conduct and values. They are reluctant to paint graffiti on monuments, but didn’t bother of destruction the facade of other buildings, and railcars. They have no sense of uniformity required by declaring that hip-hop is not only the dress code, but a lifestyle.

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Delimiting cultural borders: The use of Wordsmith Tools to identify cultural differences in language uses by White or Black rappers

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Álvarez-Mosquera P.

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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2013

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vol. 49

1-20

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In the field of linguistics, music has become an increasingly important field of study. Authors such as Alim (2006), Beal (2009), Cutler (2010) and Fought (2006), among many others, have based some of their studies on music in order to describe linguistic patterns, explore cultural phenomena, or study the use of a particular language feature. While conducting a sociolinguistic research project on processes of language crossing in rap music, we came up with two independent corpora corresponding to more than 30 rap songs by each ethnic group (European American and African American) studied. Our purpose is to explore how this data can potentially be used as a valuable source of information about these two interacting groups. This article presents some significant results from processing our corpora through Wordsmith Tools, which both delimits and reinforces cultural differences in rap language usage. The use of the term nigga, the presence of different terminology to refer to females in both corpora, and the explicit skin color references made by both rap groups creates an ethnic line that delimits their language uses and has particular relevance in the hip-hop context.

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Rola kultury hip-hop w kształtowaniu się tożsamości młodzieży – wybrane konteksty

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Bieńkowska M.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2018

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issue 51

457-467

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This article was developed on the basis of my master’s thesis on hip-hop culture as a factor shaping young people’s identity. In today’s world, young people are increasingly looking for ways to express themselves and their values, which may be associated with belonging to different types of subcultures. Growing individuals manifest their independence by disagreeing with the surrounding reality and defying the prevailing social principles. It seems appropriate to belong to a chosen youth subculture. I will devote my attention to the subculture originating among the black Americans, namely the hip-hop subculture. The rap environment is very often associated with a pejorative phenomenon, vulgarisms, blockers derived from the social margin. In today’s times, in the era of ubiquitous openness and availability of mass media, in the consumer-oriented environment, hip-hop has become a part of the lives of most young, adolescent audiences. The article will also present the development of hip-hop culture in Poland and around the world, as well as the effects that it brought in the process of shaping the identity of young people.

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Postawy hip-hopowców wobec własnej podkultury. W jaki sposób widzą siebie hip-hopowcy?

Delimiting cultural borders: The use of Wordsmith Tools to identify cultural differences in language uses by White or Black rappers

Rola kultury hip-hop w kształtowaniu się tożsamości młodzieży – wybrane konteksty