Local identity and creativity Black hybrid culture in mainstream Nigerian hip hop Fatima Umar; Supervisor: Jonathan Stubbs
Dil: İngilizce Yayın ayrıntıları:Nicosia Cyprus International University 2014Tanım: VII, 94 p. picture, figure 30.5 cm CDİçerik türü:- text
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Materyal türü | Geçerli Kütüphane | Koleksiyon | Yer Numarası | Durum | Notlar | İade tarihi | Barkod | Materyal Ayırtmaları | |
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Thesis | CIU LIBRARY Tez Koleksiyonu | Tez Koleksiyonu | YL 425 U43 2014 (Rafa gözat(Aşağıda açılır)) | Kullanılabilir | Communication and Media Studies Department | T466 |
Includes CD
Includes bibliography (81-89 p.)
'ABSTRACT This thesis focuses of Nigerian hip hop music, showing the creativity and local identity created by artists.It attempts to take a positive outlook on Nigerian hip hop, countering the negative comments levelled against it by some music scholars. I argue that globalisation has made an enormous impact on Nigerian hip hop culture and has played an important role in shaping the music and performance styles of individual Nigerian artists. In particular, Nigerian hip hop music has been heavily influenced by a globalised African American culture. My analysis focuses on mainstream Nigerian hip hop music. In chapter one I explore the roots and growth of Nigerian hip hop from the early 1990s to the present and showing the influence of African American hip hop on Nigerian artists and their hip hop. Chapter two with the use of discource analysis identifies how artists have successfully created distinctive musical forms through linguistics hybridity whereby Nigerian identity is showcased and maintained by asserting inguistic autonomy through the use of Nigerian local languages (Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo), Nigerian Pidgin and Standard English, creating a passage of transference through the concept of multilingual code switching. This is followed by chapter three which also with the help of discource analysis examines the ways in which local costumes and dance styles are combined with African imagery to create a music that appeals in a Nigerian environment while still remaning connected to global hip hop. Finally, my conclusion gives a general overview of the whole thesis, pointing out that Nigerian artists tend to bring in two principle elements and messages in their representation of hybrid forms, presenting their lyrics and dance styles to fit into their cultural environment. As such, Nigerian hip hop artists have successfully carved out a hybrid form for themselves and the hip hop genre. Key words: Hybridity, globalisation, discource, hip hop, Nigeria'
1 INTRODUCTION
4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
5 IDENTIFYING CULTURAL APPROPRIATION AND HYBRIDITY THROUGH GLOBALISATION
9 METHODOLOGY
10 THESIS STRUCTURE
11 CONCLUSION
12 CHAPTER ONE: LOCATING NIGERIAN HIP HOP
12 INTRODUCTION
12 MUSICAL THEORY AND SEMIOTICS
14 A PORTRATE OF NIGERIAN HIP HOP, ITS GROWTH AND RELATIONSHIP WITH GLOBAL CULTURAL
17 ''CULTURAL RESISTANCE THROUGH COLLABORATION''CHALLENGING THE AMERICAN HIP HOP INFLUENCE
25 THE NIGERAIN MUSIC INDUSTRY AND THE SEARCH FOR DEFINITE IDENTITY
29 CONCLUSION
31 CHAPTER TWO: LINGUISTICS AND MULTILINGUAL REMIXING
31 INTRODUCTION
31 STYLING HIP HOP LANGUAGES THGROUGH GLOBALISATION
33 ENGLISH LANGUAGES AND PRETIGE: REVISITING NIGERIA'S LOCAL LANGUAGES
37 TRACING NIGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH
39 MULTILINGUAL CODE SWITCHING
40 HYBRID FORM : REFLECTION OF LANGUAGES IDENTITY IN NIGERIAN HIP HOP
52 CONCLUSION
54 CHAPTER THREE: ICONOGRAPHY, VISUAL IMAGERY AND DANCE STYLES OF NIGERIAN HIP HOP
54 INTRODUCTION
54 TRACCING ICONOGRAPHIC AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION
56 CULTURAL DOMINATION AND THE STRUGGLE OF ''KEEPING IT REAL'': THE AFRICAN AMERICAN INFLUENCE
60 NIGERIAN CULTURAL INFLUNCE : A STRATEGY OF RESISTANCE
68 FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN HIP HOP VIDEOS
70 LOOKING FOR THE REAL: DOING IT THE ''NAIJA''(NIGERIAN) WAY
70 DANCE IN NIGERIAN HIP HOP
75 CONCLUSION
77 CONCLUSIVE CEREBRATION AND OBSERVATION
77 INTRODUCTION
77 COMPLEXITIES OF NIGERIAN HIP HOP
78 NIGERIAN HIP HOP, LANGUAGE, DANCE AND IMAGE SYNERGY
79 WEAKNESS OF THE STUDY
79 RECOMMENDATION
81 BIBLIOGRAPHY
90 VIDEOGRAPHY
91 DISCOGRAPHY