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btw interesting paper found on rap lyrics across europe from 2002 https://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin19/p19t1.htm #science #musicology #hiphop #

Rap song topics in three European countries

self-presentation - a lot, similar across countries

social critique - much more in France

other not so significant, descending:
contemplation
love / sex
party / fun
dope

On the recontextualization of hip-hop in European speech communities: a contrastive analysis of rap lyrics*

This paper reports first findings of an on-going research on hip-hop discourse and rap lyrics in Continental Europe. Although hip-hop is widely considered to be an "imported" cultural pattern in Europe, this paper is based on the assumption that European hip-hop is not merely an imitation of its US model, but the outcome of a recontextualization process, wherein a globally available cultural model is being appropriated in various reception communities. It is our aim to trace this appropriation through an analysis of discourse topics and linguistic patterns in rap lyrics. Based on a randomly selected sample of 50 rap songs per language, a framework for the comparative analysis of rap lyrics is developed. On this basis, this paper is the first to document a number of textual and linguistic patterns which are typical for rap lyrics throughout Europe, ranging from song topics through rappers' verbal actions up to the use of English elements. This linguistic analysis is framed by a question derived from media and cultural studies, i.e. the relation between Americanization, cultural globalization, and popular culture. On this plane, our research provides evidence for the active and creative aspect of globalization: Globally available cultural products can provide the impulse for a locally enacted symbolic creativity – in our case, for specific "local" European forms of rap.

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**ehh hahah** @ehhh · Jan 29

Jan 29

ehh hahah @ehhh

found this by asking perplexity.ai about Neffa group

**domi d. (she/her)** @dpmd@tldr.nettime.org · Jan 29

Jan 29

domi d. (she/her) @dpmd@tldr.nettime.org

@ehhh so fucking interesting
i would love to have that kind of research today
bragga definitely went up a notch, but i feel in across all of the rap there is a rise of pickin up alienation and fame struggle topics

**Luke** @wlukewindsor@c.im · Jan 29

Jan 29

Luke @wlukewindsor@c.im

@ehhh equally dope ;-)

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