Jare Tiihonen’s songs were conducted a doctoral dissertation.

Jare Tiihonen ended her rap career in 2018. Jonas Lundqvist

Rape career ended Cheek or Jare Tiihonen43, the songs have ended up studying at the University of Jyväskylä Let Pakarinen dissertation.

Pakarinen explored Resilience Poetics: Taps and Meanings of Cheek rap poetry -In his dissertation, the poetry of Tiihonen’s entire production lyrics. He conducted his research by analyzing lyrics and interviewing Tiiho.

According to the results, Tiihonen’s lyrics emphasize, among other things, the power of conscious mind. According to Pakarinen, the lyrics of Tiihonen are interdisciplinary contrasts such as strengths and difficulties or health and illness. This also challenges the exact categories of opposites.

Cheek Province 2018 – Marko Tuominiemi Marko Tuominiemi

According to Pakarinen’s analysis, the main means of expressing Tiihonen’s lyrics are the skillful rhyme patterns, language images, narrative features and diverse cultural references.

Pakarinen also highlights Tiihonen’s songs on the theme of mental health and its handling at the cultural level.

– Cheek’s lyrics create space for an authentic experience -based mental health speech, where the social and cultural aspects of the mind also emerge, he describes in a news release from the University of Jyväskylä.

Pakarinen sees that production can identify means of expression and themes that allow, for example, further studies on rap art therapy.

Tiihonen was amazed

Tiihonen comments on Pakarinen’s research in the release. He says he was amazed at the results.

– It seems unrealistic that someone has researched and analyzed the texts I wrote with such an amazing accuracy. Pakarinen has found repeated themes and connections in the verses I have written for nearly 20 years – even those I have not consciously noticed. After all, I have only honestly written the thoughts and feelings of each year, and released albums of them, he says.

Picture of Jare Tiihonen’s Farewell Concert in 2018. Matti Matikainen

Tiihonen is the first Finnish rap artist to publish a doctoral dissertation on the entire production.

Tiihonen ended his career as rap artist in 2018 and has since lived silent. Since ending, Tiihonen has continued to influence the music industry through his League Music album.

Emma-winning Tiihonen’s most famous hits include Diamonds are eternal, The shock off, Who else supposedly and The blame for your smile.

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