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Anais do Primeiro Colóquio Internacional Culturas Jovens Afro-Brasil América: Encontros e Desencontros


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Abstract

SANTOS, Silvia Maria Vieira dos. Hip hop in Fortaleza: a social movement composed mostly of afro descendants. In Proceedings of the 1st. Colóquio Internacional Culturas Jovens Afro-Brasil América: Encontros e Desencontros Anais do Primeiro Colóquio Internacional Culturas Jovens Afro-Brasil América: Encontros e Desencontros, 2012, São Paulo (SP) [online]. 2012 [cited 28 March 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000132012000100033&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

Some research has pointed out the importance of Hip Hop as a youth cultural movement, while others affirm that it is a political instrument of the socially excluded youth. This research aims to find out how Hip Hop is seen by social movements, and especially what its relationship with the Black Movement is. The research is conducted in Fortaleza, where one of the main expressions of the movement is located, the MH2O (Organized Hip Hop Movement), as well as a great deal of other groups which send their messages through the radio program Se Liga - O som do hip hop, which can be translated as Connect Yourself - the sound of Hip Hop. The program is aired every Sunday at Rádio Universitária FM. In the research, I found out that hip hop in Fortaleza is an expression of a significant part of the impoverished black youth that uses their symbolic and concrete territory to denounce the unfair conditions that the population of the periphery of the city live in, where most of this population is composed of afrodescendants. In that context, Hip Hop is also consolidated as a cultural expression and an expression of the black identity. This movement is included in the analysis of the heterogeneous social movements because it is full of conflict, and therefore polysemous - sometimes it is understood as a cultural movement, sometimes as a political movement and sometimes it is seen as part of the Black Movement and sometimes it is not. However, it is possible to confirm that is one of the various social movements composed mostly of afro descendant people.

Keywords : Hip Hop; social movement; youth; identity; Black Movement.

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