RAPOWE KONFRONTACJE – O BIOGRAFICZNYM UCZENIU SIĘ POLSKICH RAPERÓW
RAP CONFRONTATIONS – BIOGRAPHIC LEARNING OF POLISH RAPPERS

Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on rap music and some issues of biographicity, biography and biographic learning. The author’s interests oscillate around the educational potential of rap, from the point of view of both its creators and audience. It is possible due to biographisation of rap, expressed in biographical content present in rap music and connected with biographical learning of rappers. Polish hip-hop culture, including rap, began to emerge in 1990’s and is associated with the system transformation. Since then, the genre has been constantly evolving, resulting in the development of many types of rap music. Rap lyrics tell the stories of people living in these years, and the most important characters of these events are musicians themselves who build their narratives around their own, personal experiences. In her analysis, the author focuses on the following research problems: What can we say about biographic learning of Polish rappers based on the analysis of the selected rap works? What biographical aspects are exposed in the works of the selected rappers? What events and situations that illustrate the rappers’ life are mentioned in their lyrics? What images of childhood (pre-school, school), adolescence and adulthood are presented in the rappers’ works? How do they describe overcoming difficult situations and crises? In what sense is it biographic learning? In order to answer the above listed questions, the author applied the interpretative paradigm, using the qualitative study and the document analysis method.

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