Die opkoms van Afrikaanse rock en die literêre status van lirieke, met spesifieke verwysing na Fokofpolisiekar

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dc.contributor.advisorFoster, P. H.en_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorGrundlingh, A. M.
dc.contributor.authorKlopper, Annie Elizabethen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch.
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-04T11:24:41Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:43:15Z
dc.date.available2009-03-04T11:24:41Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:43:15Z
dc.date.issued2009-03en_ZA
dc.descriptionThesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to examine the rise of Afrikaans rock music and the literary status of Afrikaans rock lyrics, with Fokofpolisiekar as example. An investigation is done into how the specific sociopolitical context within which Afrikaans rock music developed manifests in lyrics and musical style. The implications of Afrikaans rock with regards to the identity of Afrikaner youth in the new millennium are also explored. A case study of the Afrikaans punk rock group Fokofpolisiekar is done by way of demonstration of this interdisciplinary and contextual investigation. Not only the formation and impact of the group are examined, but a considerable section of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of this group’s lyrics, which are viewed and explored from a literary point of view. In this process certain questions regarding the position of lyrics in the Afrikaans literary system comes under scrutiny. The analysis and interpretation of the lyrics of Fokofpolisiekar are therefore aimed towards examining the literary status of this group’s lyrics. It will be proved that the sociopolitical context within which Fokofpolisiekar’s lyrics came to be formulated, impacted on the character and themes thereof. The thematic struggle with issues like liberation (redemption) and identity in the lyrics are shown to bear relation to the sociopolitical context of the Afrikaner youth after the Afrikaner’s loss of power in 1994 and the postmodern condition at the turn of the millennium. This postmodern condition is characterized by the continuing fragmentation of identity. The conclusion is made that Afrikaans popular music sets up a space within which new ideas with regards to ‘truths’ of identity can be formulated. In other words, the punk rock music of Fokofpolisiekar offers an opportunity for the re-articulation of Afrikaner identity. By incorporating the polysistem theory (and other relevant theories) in investigating the creation and reception of Fokofpolisiekar’s lyrics, it is shown that the Afrikaans literary system holds a place for Afrikaans lyrics. Although similar, lyrics should not be regarded as synonymous to poetry. Seeing that the creation and reception thereof differs from that of other literary forms, I argue that lyrics are lyrics and should be regarded as such in order for it to come to its full right in literary study.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2201
dc.language.isoafen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectFokofpolisiekaren_ZA
dc.subjectRock groups -- South Africaen
dc.subjectPopular music -- Texts -- History and criticismen
dc.subjectDissertations -- Afrikaans literatureen
dc.subjectTheses -- Afrikaans literatureen
dc.titleDie opkoms van Afrikaanse rock en die literêre status van lirieke, met spesifieke verwysing na Fokofpolisiekaraf
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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