Marco, Derilene2009-10-082009-10-082009-10-08http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7340M.A.(Media Studies), Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 2009This research will critically analyse “conscious” hip-hop music and the way in which it contests media and mainstream ideas in the media. Conscious hip-hop refers to rap music that critically engages with hegemonic discourses and popular culture. It is framed and named in this manner by both the performers/ artists themselves as well as by leading hip-hop scholars within South Africa and globally. This research uses the music of Godessa and Brasse Vannie Kaap to interrogate representations of Black identities and gender in society.enmedia representationship-hopgenderraceThesis