ABSTRACTEvery society possesses preconceived standpoints on women and womens issues in its enclave and these standpoints manifest in diverse media of communication from time to time. Popular music is one avenue for communicating social realities. This article examines Ayinla Omowura’s song-texts in order to understand how the artist as a patriarchal voice interprets these standpoints. Six songs are critically analysed to consider specific women’s issues and how they were portrayed. Four themes, namely polygamy, prostitution, skin bleaching, and women’s submission, recur in the songs. Also, the artist thrives on the use of invective, curses, proverbs, and aphorisms imbued with metaphors as rhetorical strategies. In all, the artist’s commentaries on women’s affairs in his society reveal a high level of patriarchal hegemony that dominated his time. In his attempt to explain the psychology of women, he accommodates and lends voice to the manufactured consent for continued gender discrimination.

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通过父权制声音了解女性立场：对阿因拉·奥莫瓦拉（Ayinla Omowura）音乐的研究

每个社会在其飞地中都拥有关于妇女和妇女问题的先入为主的立场，这些立场不时出现在各种传播媒介中。流行音乐是交流社会现实的一种途径。本文研究了Ayinla Omowura的歌曲文本，以了解作为父权制歌手的艺术家如何解释这些立场。认真分析了六首歌曲，以考虑特定的女性问题以及如何描绘它们。歌曲中重现了四个主题，即一夫多妻制，卖淫，皮肤漂白和女性服从。此外，艺术家在运用隐喻作为隐喻的修辞策略，咒骂，谚语和格言方面也颇受好评。总而言之，艺术家对社会中妇女事务的评论揭示了统治其时代的父权制霸权。