As mutações da experiencia militante : um estudo a partir do movimento hip hop de Campinas, São Paulo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This work looks into the political activism of young black rappers engaged in the creation of the «House of Hip Hop », an institution sponsored by the city government of Campinas, São Paulo, held by the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) between 2001 and 2004. The research seeks to explain the origins of the rappers? political activism, expressed by (i) their adhesion to rap as an artistic and political endeavour and (ii) the alliances they were able to make with the city s elected politicians in order to create the House. Drawing on Bourdieu s discussion of socialisation as internalisation of the objective conditions of existence, the dissertation discusses the processes by which the dispositions towards both music and political protest were created. It shows that an experience of modest upward social mobility in the parents generation provided the youth with strong ambitions. The impossibility of building a future through schooling for lack of good school opportunities, coupled with an early experience of racism in the school environment and in contacts with the police in the streets, directed them towards the cultural market, leading them to try to build a career as rappers. This was seen by them, at the time, as a possible way out of economic privation while keeping their black roots and dignity. Developing Bourdieu s theory of fields, the research takes into account the rappers? trajectoires from the moment when, after meeting with strong opposition from the established rappers in the city, they enter the field of organised politics, associating themselves with a black city councilmember (« vereador ») affiliated with the PT, who taught them the basics of organised political action. As a result, the rappers created an association that became perceived by the media and by the government as the hip hop movement of Campinas. As such, they could successfully negotiate with the appointed City Secretary of Culture the creation of the House of Hip Hop and secure for themselves key public jobs in this institution. The process of institutionalisation was followed by a group crisis culminating with a cleavage among the members and with the redirection of the youth ambitions towards the more secure public jobs, thus renouncing to the rapper career

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militantismo hip-hop (cultura popular jovem) socialização hip-hop juventude activism ciencia politica socialisation political science youth

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