- Title
- 'Underground' hip hop and rock music scenes in East London: exploring identity and authenticity, c1994 - 2010
- Creator
- Mtshemla, Sinazo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-5637
- Subject
- Identity (Philosophical concept)
- Subject
- Rap (Music)
- Date Issued
- 2014-01
- Date
- 2014-01
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25195
- Identifier
- vital:63993
- Description
- This study explores how through music discourses and representations of identity and authenticity are articulated through a reading of hip hop and rock music scenes in post-apartheid East London. I have read through interviews, spaces where performances occur and material culture associated with the artists, of musicians moving between ideas of resistance to the mainstream as well as conforming in their representations of identity. The tensions aroused by these underground music scenes in my study ran between resistance and conforming narratives in relation to how musicians express how they make sense of identity and authenticity in the changing post-apartheid landscape. Therefore the complex readings of identity derived from the study showed how contradictory music allows one to be. Further the study found that the assertions about race, ethnicity and identity were often more subtle and contradictory at times, which warranted one to pay closer attention to these music scenes. Inasmuch as musicians attempted to move out of the mainstream by placing themselves in an alternative positioning, they remained limited to ‘authentic’ articulations of identity, where race remained either ‘invisibly’ white or problematically ‘native’ as centres of authentic representation. Moreover the study was able to show the anxieties and tensions around citizenship, identity and belonging.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2014
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (166 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2014
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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