The paper addresses the dialectics of protest and revolt in Childish Gambino’s musical video ‘This is America’ and its adapted version in Falz’s musical video ‘This is Nigeria’ within the context of Musical Discourse Analysis. In Gambino’s ‘This is America’, the African-American youths become the centre of attention, while America is depicted as a country of racial inequality. Correspondingly, a revolt thematic is further pursued in Falz’s ‘This is Nigeria’ to reflect a devaluation of youths’ lives, and highlight other local conflicts that impinge on Nigeria’s continuity as a sovereign nation. Surprisingly, among the emerging hip hop voices in America, Donald Mckinley Glover Jr., otherwise known as Childish Gambino, most clearly heralds revolt against a longstanding racism that all too often result in the lives of African-American youths been desperately wasted through the high rate of mass shootings. Although relatively new on the list of Nigerian hip hop, Folarin Falana, whose stage name is Falz, has made a controversial but compelling reinterpretation of Nigerian social crises in ‘This is Nigeria’. His innovative adaptation of Gambino’s ‘This is America’ forcefully brings a formal order out of chaos. Apparently, the visual parallelism in their musical videos engages appropriately with metatheatre to clearly challenge conventional assumptions of youths’ lives in America and Nigeria. Suffice it to state that by embracing the path of resistance, both Gambino and Falz have proven that their individual frustrations are the frustrations of youths in their cross-cultural societies. Chaos, marginality and resentment epitomised in the two musical videos undergird the focus of this paper to explore the signification of American and Nigerian youths’ cross-cultural pursuit of protest, conflict and revolt through meta-theater in ‘This is America’ and ‘This is Nigeria’.

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“发声抗议”：在甘比诺的“这是美国”和法尔兹的“这是尼日利亚”中进行跨文化反抗

该论文在音乐话语分析的背景下讨论了 Childish Gambino 音乐录影带“这是美国”及其改编版 Falz 音乐录影带“这是尼日利亚”中抗议和反抗的辩证法。在甘比诺的《这就是美国》中，非裔美国青年成为关注的焦点，而美国则被描绘成一个种族不平等的国家。相应地，Falz 的“这就是尼日利亚”进一步追求反叛主题，以反映年轻人生活的贬值，并突出其他影响尼日利亚作为主权国家连续性的地方冲突。令人惊讶的是，在美国新兴的嘻哈声音中，小唐纳德·麦金利·格洛弗（Donald Mckinley Glover Jr.，也被称为 Childish Gambino），最清楚地预示着对长期存在的种族主义的反抗，这种种族主义常常导致非裔美国青年的生命因大规模枪击事件的高发率而被极度浪费。尽管在尼日利亚嘻哈名单上相对较新，但艺名 Falz 的 Folarin Falana 在“这就是尼日利亚”中对尼日利亚的社会危机进行了有争议但令人信服的重新诠释。他对甘比诺的“这就是美国”的创新改编有力地从混乱中带来了正式秩序。显然，他们的音乐视频中的视觉平行性与元剧院恰当地结合在一起，以明确挑战美国和尼日利亚年轻人生活的传统假设。我只想说，通过拥抱抵抗的道路，Gambino 和 Falz 都证明了他们个人的挫败感是跨文化社会中年轻人的挫败感。两部音乐视频中集中体现的混乱、边缘和怨恨巩固了本文的重点，探讨美国和尼日利亚青年通过元剧院在“这就是美国”和“这”中对抗议、冲突和反抗的跨文化追求的意义。是尼日利亚'。