Network of Persian Rap Disputes; The study of prominent Persian rap diss and dissbacks

Document Type : researcher

Authors
mohammad sajjad kafi 1
Mohammad reza Borzoei 2
mohammad mehdi dehghani zadeh Baghdad abad 3
1 Faculty of Islamic Studies, Culture and Communication, Imam Sadeq University
2 Emam sadegh university
3 M. A of Emam sadegh university
10.22034/scm.2024.210445
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Abstract
Among the seven arts of the world, "music" is known as the first art. Music has become a popular media and cultural commodity in today's world. "Rap" music as a media tool of "hip-hop" subculture is a type of underground music. The problem of the current research is the genealogy of conflicts in Persian rap. In other words, what themes are there in the lyrics of this style of rap? Is this style, as some believe, emerged in order to warm up and introduce rap music, or is there another reason other than making this music attractive, which deserves to be addressed. The present article has tried to observe and analyze 22 pieces of "Dis" and "Dis Back" songs of Persian rap, which is a kind of musical conflict between two artists, and achieve the analysis of their theme networks. The current article finally reached 11 descriptive codes from 204 descriptive codes, which were merged into two comprehensive codes of "difference of insight" and "authoritarianism". Therefore, it can be concluded that the difference of views in the labels, people and their type of rap style including mainstream, underground, political rap and gangsta rap has caused some of these tensions and conflicts. Therefore, it is simplistic to reduce these conflicts only to "authoritarianism".

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Society Culture Media
Volume 13, Issue 52
Autumn 2024
Pages 247-265

  • Receive Date 15 December 2023
  • Revise Date 07 April 2024
  • Accept Date 08 June 2024