Previous research shows how music presents gender in different ways depending on the genre, and that music can affect the listeners' behaviour. There is also research that shows how gender is constructed in different social arenas and through people's way of expressing themselves and communicating. The purpose of this study is to investigate how lyrics within Swedish reggae and hip hop can express and construct gender by analysing artists' lyrics from a gender perspective. Based on a social constructivist perspective characterized by gender theories by Yvonne Hirdman, Raewyn Connell, Judith Butler, Candace west and Don H. Zimmerman, the results of the text analysis can be investigated as a source of construction, reproduction and maintenance of gender and gender stereotypes. The study also takes a didactic perspective where a reflection describes how the results of the study can influence the teaching in the school. The result shows that Swedish hip hop and reggae can be a source of both construction and reproduction and maintenance of sex and gender. Lyrics within hip hop constructs an ideal image of men as successful in the music industry, independent and as a drug user while the image of women can be described as an object owned by the man and also compared to other physical objects, such as money and weapons. Lyrics within reggae constructs an ideal image of men as charming, the promotion of equality and cannabis smoking while women are portrayed as and communicates that the women should be powerful, beautiful and equal or superior to men.

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in English TITLE : Prosodic Analysis of Urban Music in French and Czech AUTHOR : Mgr. Polina Chodaková DEPARTMENT : Institute of Romance Studies FF UK SUPERVISORS : doc. PhDr. Tomáš Duběda, Ph.D., prof. Philippe Martin, Dr ès Sci, Dr Ling. KEY WORDS : Prosody, metrics, stress, intonation, declamation, rap, reggae This thesis deals with the rhythm, stress and intonation in rap and reggae music. It describes the form features of declamations which combine chant, half- singing and singing, in the theoretical framework of contrastive prosody and verse theory. The thesis consists of seven chapters and is based on a textual corpus of 200 songs in French and Czech, assembled for this dissertation. The linguistic material of 59,000 syllables is a representative set of excerpts, transcribed in rhythmic grids with an auditive analysis. From the prosodic point of view, rap and reggae display an important degree of rhythmic reorganisation. In both languages, setting texts to music is performed ac- cording to an isochronous pattern, which is imposed on the lyrics with an isosyllabic rhythm and whose bound stress system is weak. This is shown through interactive constraints, which reflect universal tendencies in verbal art, that both genres exhibit a lot of freedom in the association of lyrics and the musical...

Qui sont les skinheads ? S’agit-il seulement de ces brutes stupides et violentes, xénophobes et racistes sisouvent exposées par les médias ? Qu’en est-il alors de ces premiers skinheads qui, à la fin des années 1960,affectionnaient tant la musique jamaïcaine qu’ils contribueront à sa diffusion et à son succès à travers toutel’Angleterre ? Que s’est-il passé entre ces années 1960 et les années 1980 qui verront l’apparition du phénomènenaziskin ? Il y a t-il une unité du mouvement skinhead ou seulement une juxtaposition de mouvances ?Qu’est-ce qui peut unir les skinheads entre eux, à travers les générations et au-delà de leurs divisions ?Afin d’apporter des réponses à ces questions, le présent travail présentera, dans une première partie, unhistorique du mouvement skinhead qui permettra de suivre et de comprendre son évolution depuis ses originesen faisant ressortir le rôle important que jouera la musique dans toutes ses mutations successives etdans sa dérive politique. Suivra ensuite, dans une seconde partie, une analyse des éléments constitutifs dela subculture skinhead – à commencer par sa constante référence à la classe ouvrière exhibée au travers deses formes stylistiques, son rapport à la violence symbolique ou réelle, les valeurs qu’elle prétend incarneret défendre – et ses incidences idéologiques. La dernière partie sera consacrée à un travail de terrain menéprincipalement en France qui fera apparaitre, au moyen d’entretiens et d’observations, comment se vit,s’organise et se représente ce milieu skinhead.Il s’agira donc de révéler le mouvement skinhead sous ses différents aspects mais aussi de montrer ce quepeut révéler ce mouvement de mode devenu phénomène social quant aux processus de radicalisation, demédiatisation et de diabolisation. / Who are the skinheads ? Are they just these brainless, violent, xenophobic and racist bullies, who are sooften exposed in the media ? What about the very first skinheads who, near the end of the 1960s, were sofond of Jamaican music that they contributed to its spreading and success all over England ? What happenedbetween the 1960s and the 1980s, when the nazi skinhead phenomenon appeared ? Is there only one skinheadmovement or is it made up of many trends ? What makes the skinheads a group as a unified whole, beyondits divisions ?To answer these questions, the first part of this thesis will provide a background history of the skinheadmovement so as to follow, and understand, its evolution since its origins. It will emphasise on the role playedby music on both its successive mutations and its political drift. In a second part, it will analysed the variouselements which constitute the skinhead subculture - from its constant reference to the working-class displayedthrough its stylistic forms, its link to symbolic or actual violence, and the values it claims to embody andfight for – to its ideological consequences. The last part will be dedicated to fieldwork carried out mainlyin France and which will show, thanks to interviews and observations, how the skinhead community lives,organises and sees itself.The purpose of this study is not only to reveal the skinhead movement in its various forms but also todemonstrate what this stylistic social phenomenon, can reveal in terms of radicalisation, media coverageand demonization.

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Mouvement politico-religieux d'origine jamaïcaine, le rastafari jouit aujourd'hui d'un fort engouement à l'échelle globale. Utilisant la musique reggae comme support de transmission idéologique, son déploiement en Afrique de l'Ouest démontre comment les mythes et les connaissances qu'il véhicule bénéficient d'une résonance profonde auprès d'une jeunesse confrontée aux dynamiques propres à l'époque postcoloniale, où s'entrechoquent la tradition ancestrale et les modèles offerts par l'Occident. Le sujet dont ce mémoire fait l'objet porte sur les réinterprétations du rastafari telles qu'élaborées par les rastas africains au Mali. Explorant la mobilité des constructions identitaires qui se forment au sein de ce mouvement ainsi que les différentes interprétations locales du rastafari, le mémoire vise à présenter les diverses voies vers lesquelles s'orientent les rastas au Mali, illustrant la plurivocalité du mouvement. La dernière partie du mémoire s'attarde à l'expression locale du reggae à travers les thèmes politiques et spirituels abordés dans les discours et les textes des reggaemen ouest-africains. / As a politico-religious movement originating in Jamaica, the Rastafari movement is the object of much fascination Worldwide. With reggae music as a vehicle for its ideology, its expansion in West Africa illustrates how the myths and knowledge it conveys resonate deeply to young people embroiled in the dynamics of a post-colonial era in which ancestral tradition and Western models collide. The object of this thesis is the reinterpretations of Rastafari by African Rastas in Mali. Exploring shifts in the construction of identities taking place within the movement as well as the local understandings and interpretations of Rastafari, this thesis presents the divergent paths of Malian Rastas, illustrating the plurivocality of the movement. The last section of the thesis focuses on the local expression of reggae through the political and spiritual themes addressed by West African reggaemen in their discourse and lyrics.

Reggae is a popular musical form that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960's and soon came to be closely associated with the oppositional, Afrocentric Rastafarian movement. During the 1970's it achieved global popularity and is now produced in many locations around the world. In Montreal, reggae is produced by and for a cosmopolitan community; however, certain conceptions of the distinctiveness of this music as an effective intervention in social processes, derived from Rastafarian philosophy, are maintained by its performers. This thesis examines reggae song lyrics and elements of discourse about reggae music in relation to Rastafarian cultural practices, showing how the aesthetic conventions of the form involve a certain ritualization of musical activity that allows for the interpretation of aesthetic experience in terms of solidarity, resistance and historical progress.

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The work deals with Rastafari, gender promatics and the leisure phenomenon reggae, which is a means of presentation of identity the rastafarian musical artists. The beginning of the theoretical part the work deals with identity, gender roles and stereotypes as aspects of education. Next part is concerned with attributes of rastafarian identity, historical roots of Rastafarians, their religion, lifestyle, specific language, gender problematics and the spread of Rastafari in contemporary global world. The last chapter discusses the reggae musical style from the viewpoint its functions, creation and international development as the contemporary cultural trend. The practical part is concerned with qualitative research using method of content analysis and coding of the obtained data. The aim of the research is to describe the gender problematics explicitly and implicitly contained in the musical texts of reggae and genres deriving from it.

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