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Samhällskritik från gatan : En studie av argumentationen i hiphopmusiken utifrån ideologi

<p><strong>Purpose: </strong></p><ul><li>Which type of social critique does hiphop music present and is it possible to categorize the critique?</li><li>Is it possible to categorize the social critique ideologically on the basis of socialism, liberalism and conservatism?</li></ul><p><strong>Procedure and method: </strong>A qualitative text method has been used to see which arguments the songs portray. Two different analyzes has been used. The first one was a theory based on Thomas Denk and Daniel Silanders book: <em>Att studera demokratisering</em> and Arvidssons book: <em>Musik och politik hör ihop</em> and its purpose were to categorise the critique. The second one was based on a book by Reidar Larssons: <em>Politiska ideologier i vår tid</em>. With the purpose to ideologically classify the critique.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The social critique that was found in the songs where the following: <strong>poverty, education system, ethnicity, racism, elite governing, misused power by the police, welfare, religion, justice system, ghettos and the war on Iraq. The social </strong>critique came from socialism and liberalism. The arguments from socialism where the class society and the critique that came from the liberalisms side was: political power, freedom and harassment from the police. Conservatism was not represented in the songs.     <strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hik-2252
Date January 2009
CreatorsGustafsson, Johan
PublisherUniversity of Kalmar, School of Human Sciences
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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