Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator

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dc.contributor.advisorRollefson, J. Griffithen
dc.contributor.advisorKulezic-Wilson, Danijelaen
dc.contributor.advisorexternalAlves da Silva, Rubensen
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Gustavo Souva
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-29T09:01:54Z
dc.date.available2021-09-29T09:01:54Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-14
dc.date.submitted2021-09-14
dc.description.abstractTyler, The Creator (Tyler Gregory Okonma), is an African American rapper, music producer and entrepreneur who has been vigorously challenging tropes of black American masculinity. From chattel slavery to blackface minstrelsy, the African diasporic experience in the West is marked by a series of stigmas, contradictions and dichotomies evidenced in the challenge of being black in a white world. This duplicity denounced and analyzed by scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon informs the theoretical frame of this dissertation but also reflects Tyler’s investments in subverting American racial ideology in his controversial audio-visual performances. Through his participation in and appropriating of skateboarding and web culture, Tyler denies common associations and stereotypes of blackness related to gangsterism which allowed him to become an internet phenomenon at the age of 19 with his music video “Yonkers” (2011). This study analyzes Tyler’s systematic move beyond gangsta through close media analysis and through ethnographic work in and around the black suburbia of Tyler’s upbringing in Southern California.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationMarques, G. S. 2021. Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage266en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12025
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2021, Gustavo Souva Marques.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectHip-hopen
dc.subjectWeb cultureen
dc.subjectCritical race theoryen
dc.subjectMedia studiesen
dc.subjectSkateboard cultureen
dc.subjectTyler, the Creatoren
dc.titleBeyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creatoren
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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