Typology of Discourses in Iranian-Persian Rap Music

From the perspective of Cultural Studies, in popular culture, dialogue between upper-classes cultures and lower-classes cultures result semantic conflicts and struggles. In this article we have been studied Iranian-Persian rap to recognize the discourses and struggles between discourses in this music. We used LacLau and Mouffe's discourse analysis and recognized 9 discourses; we also identified moments and master signifiers in each discourse. Although rap music discourse is a marginal discourse in Iran, but in this discourse some (sub-) discourses are mainstream and others are marginalized. Analysis of results showed that the existing struggles between the discourses of Iranian-Persian rap music, is mixed of gender-based, class-based, moral-based, political-based, religious-based, traditional/modern, and more conflicts.