Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHaupt, Adam
dc.coverage.spatialCape Townen_ZA
dc.date2014-01-27
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-29T10:48:13Z
dc.date.available2014-09-29T10:48:13Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-29
dc.description.abstract‘Why should I fight for a country’s glory/When it ignores me?/Besides, the township’s already a war zone/So why complain or moan?’ The opening lines from Prophets of da City’s (POC) 1993 song Understand where I’m coming from expressed a deep suspicion of the emerging ‘new’ South Africa. Twenty years later, this course examines the role hip-hop has played in engaging young South Africans both creatively and politically. It will offer an account of hip-hop’s political orientation in relation to debates about commercial co-option, censorship, gender, race and other identity politics, and examine how these politics have been taken up by South African hip-hop artists. It will focus specifically on hip-hop’s reception in Cape Town in the late 1980s and early 1990s and explore the work of early Capetonian hip-hop artists, in particular the Prophets of da City. Widely acknowledged for setting the scene for a range of emerging mother-tongue rappers in South Africa, POC’s influence on struggles over language, race and identity and on early Afrikaans hip-hop will be explored. The final session will be a panel discussion, featuring hip-hop artists and academics, which examines the warnings of Understand where I’m coming from, and considers the role of contemporary hip-hop artists in post-apartheid struggles for justice and equality.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitation2014. <i>Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa.</i> http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7728en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation. 2014. <i>Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa.</i> http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7728en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHaupt, A. 2014-09-29. Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa. Recorded lecture. UCT Summer School Lectures 2014. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.risTY - Other AU - Haupt, Adam AB - ‘Why should I fight for a country’s glory/When it ignores me?/Besides, the township’s already a war zone/So why complain or moan?’ The opening lines from Prophets of da City’s (POC) 1993 song Understand where I’m coming from expressed a deep suspicion of the emerging ‘new’ South Africa. Twenty years later, this course examines the role hip-hop has played in engaging young South Africans both creatively and politically. It will offer an account of hip-hop’s political orientation in relation to debates about commercial co-option, censorship, gender, race and other identity politics, and examine how these politics have been taken up by South African hip-hop artists. It will focus specifically on hip-hop’s reception in Cape Town in the late 1980s and early 1990s and explore the work of early Capetonian hip-hop artists, in particular the Prophets of da City. Widely acknowledged for setting the scene for a range of emerging mother-tongue rappers in South Africa, POC’s influence on struggles over language, race and identity and on early Afrikaans hip-hop will be explored. The final session will be a panel discussion, featuring hip-hop artists and academics, which examines the warnings of Understand where I’m coming from, and considers the role of contemporary hip-hop artists in post-apartheid struggles for justice and equality. DA - 2014-09-29 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - hip-hop activism KW - US cultural imperialism KW - capetonian hip-hop KW - hip hop political orientation LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa TI - Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7728 ER -en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitation. 2014. <i>Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa.</i> http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7728en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUCT Summer School Lectures 2014en_ZA
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen_ZA
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_ZA
dc.subjecthip-hop activismen_ZA
dc.subjectUS cultural imperialismen_ZA
dc.subjectcapetonian hip-hopen_ZA
dc.subjecthip hop political orientationen_ZA
dc.titleHip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africaen_ZA
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uct.type.publicationTeaching and Learningen_ZA
uct.type.resourceRecorded lectureen_ZA
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