In a State of Becoming : Jazz Rap Meditations

2020

Master's thesis in Popular music (MUR502) The artistic research project In a State of Becoming explores musical identity in an ever-changing state of flow –changing both within itself and others’ perception of it. It seeks to probe the matter of inherent flux by engaging another musical self in the present of the project, and the matter of extraneous flux by looking at surrounding components that build into the totality of the subjective perception. Over a nine-month period (September 2019 till May 2020),I positioned myself within the genre of jazz rap –a disputed subgenre of hip-hop –working from a somewhat constructed sense of musical identity that, in its very premise of existing, challe…