The early hip hop made in South Africa in the 1980s was politically conscious and openly critical of the apartheid system. Hip hop has proliferated and diversified since its beginnings, and according to several contemporary researchers, this development has entailed a shift from an emphasis on black consciousness towards a focus on individual achievement, sensuous pleasures, and materialism (e.g., Künzler 2011; Watkins 2012). This article shows that conscious rap still exists in South Africa. It studies the discourses of contemporary conscious rap artists and adherents and argues that they construct putatively distinct subcultural factions according to the music styles followed by the youth. The distinctions are driven by both the musical a...
Although music has seemingly always formed an integral part of human culture, technological advance...
This ethnographic study describes the digital media ecologies of hip-hop artists in the marginalised...
The Afrikan Hiphop Caravan is an annual project run by various Hip Hop activist networks spread acro...
The early hip hop made in South Africa in the 1980s was politically conscious and openly critical of...
PhD ThesisThis thesis provides an ethnographic account of Cape Town’s vibrant underground hip-hop s...
The global spread of hip-hop has taken shape through the localisation of hip-hop practices. Youth al...
Thesis (M.Mus.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.This ethnographic study concerns itself wi...
‘Why should I fight for a country’s glory/When it ignores me?/Besides, the township’s already a war...
Hip-hop and rap music are present in many cities in the Eastern Cape but this article is restricted ...
This thesis is structured around an exploration of the global phenomenon hip-hop. It considers how i...
Magister Artium - MAThis thesis explores the ways in which Cape Town rap group Prophets of da City a...
This thesis provides an ethnographic account of Cape Town’s vibrant underground hip-hop scene. Cente...
We describe findings from a 15-month ethnography of hip-hop performers in Cape Town, South Africa. M...
The Afrikan Hiphop Caravan is an annual project run by various Hip Hop activist networks spread acro...
A report study project presented to: The Department of Social Work School of Human and Community D...
Although music has seemingly always formed an integral part of human culture, technological advance...
This ethnographic study describes the digital media ecologies of hip-hop artists in the marginalised...
The Afrikan Hiphop Caravan is an annual project run by various Hip Hop activist networks spread acro...
The early hip hop made in South Africa in the 1980s was politically conscious and openly critical of...
PhD ThesisThis thesis provides an ethnographic account of Cape Town’s vibrant underground hip-hop s...
The global spread of hip-hop has taken shape through the localisation of hip-hop practices. Youth al...
Thesis (M.Mus.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.This ethnographic study concerns itself wi...
‘Why should I fight for a country’s glory/When it ignores me?/Besides, the township’s already a war...
Hip-hop and rap music are present in many cities in the Eastern Cape but this article is restricted ...
This thesis is structured around an exploration of the global phenomenon hip-hop. It considers how i...
Magister Artium - MAThis thesis explores the ways in which Cape Town rap group Prophets of da City a...
This thesis provides an ethnographic account of Cape Town’s vibrant underground hip-hop scene. Cente...
We describe findings from a 15-month ethnography of hip-hop performers in Cape Town, South Africa. M...
The Afrikan Hiphop Caravan is an annual project run by various Hip Hop activist networks spread acro...
A report study project presented to: The Department of Social Work School of Human and Community D...
Although music has seemingly always formed an integral part of human culture, technological advance...
This ethnographic study describes the digital media ecologies of hip-hop artists in the marginalised...
The Afrikan Hiphop Caravan is an annual project run by various Hip Hop activist networks spread acro...