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| Author(s): |
Pablo Nabarrete Bastos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2008-04-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Solange Martins Couceiro de Lima;
Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes;
Jose Guilherme Cantor Magnani
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| Advisor: | Solange Martins Couceiro de Lima |
| Abstract | |
The objective of this research is to understand the meaning of the ABC Paulista Hip Hop Movement using as starting point the life story of social agents in the researched seven towns: Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, Diadema, Mauá, Ribeirão Pires e Rio Grande da Serra. The focus befalls upon the work of the posses acting in the region: Posse Hausa (Hausa Posse), Nação Hip Hop Brasil (Hip Hop Brazil Nation), and Associação Cultural e Educacional Zulu Nation Brasil (Zulu Nation Brazil Cultural and Educational Association). The posses are entities composed by Hip Hop organic intellectuals, agents of the organized Hip Hop Movement, that strive the four Hip Hop artistic elements - MC (Master of Ceremonies), DJ (Disc-Jockey), street dance and grafitti - around a political-ideological position and a cultural intervention and formation work, which they understand and dominate as Hip Hops fifth element. Above all, the manner of working out the fifth element is what distinguishes one posse from another. The focus of this research also befalls on the process of historic constitution of the posses, their relation with the means of mass communication and public power of the analysed cities; their processes of struggling, negotiating and symbolic exchanging. From this participant observation on it was possible to perceive how, through Hip Hop, class, race, culture and generation references are built up, in which the young people living in the outskirts mirror themselves in constituting their identities and in mediating the historical process constructions and symbolic disputes. (AU) | |