- Title
- Hooked on Gqom: an ethnographic study of a contemporary urban youth musical identity in South Africa
- Creator
- Katushabe,Bathandwa Mathias Ngasiirwe
- Subject
- Electric dance Music -- South Africa -- Durban
- Subject
- Kwaito Music -- Social Ascpects -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2022-12
- Date
- 2022-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/59326
- Identifier
- vital:62045
- Description
- Gqom music has grown from being a relatively obscure sub-genre of South African Kwaito into a globally recognised sonic identity and social movement. Gqom, as a distinct music style, has featured heavily in mass media since 2015, spawning social phenomena such as viral dance challenges on various social media platforms, and constituting a launch pad for the careers of musicians such as DJ Lag and the Distruction Boyz. Gqom also featured in the international motion picture Black Panther in 2018, and in the 2019 Lion King: The Gift album by American pop icon Beyoncé. Although the origins of Gqom, its characteristics, impact, and ascension to noteworthiness have received attention in the form of newspaper articles, online blogs, YouTube documentaries, etc, and small treatises or academic articles, little literature has been generated about the music and its theoretical construction as sonic and social phenomena. I argue that by using the theoretical scaffolds of ‘identity politics’, specifically ‘identities in music’, one is better able to understand Gqom as reflective of a broader social urban youth identity characterised by partying and political disillusionment. In other words, I make the case for an intergroup identification that prioritises in-group musical identities associated with Gqom and its phenomenology of practices which I have excavated using an ethnographic qualitative method.
- Description
- Thesis (MMus) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Visual and performing Arts, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (156 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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