La musique rap comme forme de résistance ?

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In this article, I examine the extrapolations that rap music has inspired among critics and scholars. In my effort to debunk biased presentations of rap as a form of resistance, I demonstrate that this music is first and foremost an expressive form through which rappers address a broad range of themes. I my first part, I argue that rap music offers a vast array of discourses and cannot be restricted to a mere discourse of resistance. In a second part I explain that the presentation of rap as a form of resistance, which is clearly at odds with empirical research, is the result of ideological interpretations that completely divorce this expressive form from its sociocultural origins. Through my debunking of this assertion, I importantly address issues of methodology, analytical rigor, and objectivity in scholarly works and emphasize highly biased assumptions presented by myopic researchers who let racial and political ideology take precedence over objectivity.