TUPAC SHAKUR’S HIP HOP MUSIC AGAINST RACISM IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN THE FILM ALL EYEZ ON ME

ANAM SUBEKTI, KHAIRUL (2020) TUPAC SHAKUR’S HIP HOP MUSIC AGAINST RACISM IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN THE FILM ALL EYEZ ON ME. Bachelor thesis, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan.

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Abstract

The film All Eyez On Me tells the life of a Hip hop singer Tupac Shakur. This
undergraduate paper shows how Tupac Shakur fought against racism in America
society. It covered a story from his childhood to be a famous rapper along with his
social movement called Black Panther. Hip hop is not only industrial music and
entertainment, but also a critical media to society in America. This undergraduate paper
has two main objective; (1) to describe the racism happened by Tupac Shakur (2) to
investigate the correlation between Tupac Shakur Hip hop and American racism.
This research was under a descriptive qualitative method. Therefore, library
research was used for compiling both primary data and secondary data. The primary
data is adopted from the film, meanwhile the secondary data refer to some sources such
as, books, journals, articles, and on-line data. Method of American studies as an
interdisciplinary approach is also applied along with theories to analyze the problem
formulation in this research. After the data are collected, they are analyzed by using a
sociology approach, and focusing on racism theory by James M. Jones. He shows that
racism was divided into three categories, individual racism, institutional racism, and
cultural racism. Then, the writer uses the theory of popular culture because Tupac
Shakur is a musician and music one of the product of popular culture.
This research result that Tupac Shakur tried fight against racism. Through his
music ‘Hip hop’ and social movement of Black Panther. Even though it was not
successful but it gave deep impacts toward the other social movements. In short, music
can be used as a social critics through its lyrics.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisi / Prodi:	Faculty of Letters (Fakultas Sastra) > S1-English Letters(S1-Sastra Inggris)
Depositing User:	publikasi uad
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2020 07:09
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2020 07:09
URI:	http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/17600

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