Paradoxical manners of understanding anti-discrimination education. Content analysis of hip-hop music lyrics from the album “Hip-Hop racism stop! #1”
- Institution: Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0986-9370
- Institution: Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5180-6344
- Institution: Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9953-5245
- Year of publication: 2022
- Source: Show
- Pages: 191-202
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/em.2022.04.13
- PDF: em/19/em1913.pdf
The aim of the study presented in this article was to verify the presence of the assumptions of anti-discrimination education in the lyrics of songs featured on the album “Hip-Hop racism stop! #1”, a project launched as part of a Polish campaign called “Music Against Racism”. The study involved using the content analysis method in an interpretative paradigm according to the contextual theory of meaning. The main conclusion is that the use of songs as a form of educational support can be a valuable element in the anti-discrimination education, but it is crucial to call for “negotiating with young people the content of existing culture”, which may provoke discussion with students about the ways in which words are used to form a specific image of the world. Another important conclusion is the “paradox of violence” referring to a tendency to appeal for the rejection of violence, while at the same time using violence-provoking words.