Used territory and hip-hop movement: each corner one rap, each rap one sing

Author(s)

Renan Lelis Gomes

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2012-08-27

Examining board members

Márcio Antonio Cataia; Adriana Maria Bernardes da Silva; María Mónica Arroyo

• Advisor: Márcio Antonio Cataia

Abstract

This essay presents some reflections that aim to discuss the hip-hop as a territorial manifestation that assumes regional particularities which has in rap its forms of existence. This kind of music, even containing a universal language assumes distinct regional characteristics, using more and more this diversity to create regional synergies able to design and to give voice to their complaints. Thus, assuming the techniques of the current period, in a process that goes from the production to the distribution of music, regional raps arise created from genuine Brazilian elements. The hip-hop, that covers a big quantity of young people and has deep connection to the places, becomes a tool of organic solidarity, considering that this manifestation took a very relevant room in face of urgent issues related to disadvantaged social groups and also made members of a non-institutional movement start to participate in formal politics, including competing for public career, taking part in the creation of edicts and laws (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/04784-8 - Horizontality and verticality in the political strategies of regionalization of Hip Hop in Brazil.
• Grantee: Renan Lelis Gomes
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master