What’s Be Happen? The discourse of reggae lyrics thirty years on

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aut.relation.endpage38
aut.relation.issue2
aut.relation.pages15
aut.relation.startpage23
aut.relation.volume9
aut.researcherTurner, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorTurner, E
dc.contributor.editorSchafer, C
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-14T03:47:35Z
dc.date.available2013-01-14T03:47:35Z
dc.date.copyright2012-12
dc.date.issued2012-12
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses What’s Be Happen?, New Zealand’s first reggae album, released by the band Herbs in July 1981. The lyrics and adopted ‘message music’ constitute a nexus that connects, marks and speaks of salient political and social events and issues in the 1970s and early 1980s. These issues divided New Zealand society at the time, and have helped shape both opinion and many New Zealanders’ sense of their identity. The lyrics refer in particular to protests against the loss of Māori ancestral lands; the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa; the conflict between loss of Pacific Island roots and material ambitions in New Zealand, as well as the day to day experiences and police treatment of urban Māori and Pacific Island people. Analysis of the lyrics in this discussion draws on Bakhtin’s (1981) theories of heteroglossia and the dialogic responsivity of texts.
dc.identifier.citationSites: A journal of social anthropology and cultural studies, vol.9(2), pp.23 - 38 (15)
dc.identifier.doi10.11157/sites-vol9iss2id184
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/4983
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUniversity of Otago
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol9iss2id184
dc.rightsThe contents of this journal will be available in an open access format 18 month(s) after an issue is published.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectLyrics
dc.subjectNew Zealand
dc.subjectCulture
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectBakhtin
dc.titleWhat’s Be Happen? The discourse of reggae lyrics thirty years on
dc.typeJournal Article
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