Violência e Hip Hop: transformando um problema em arte

Abstract

Within a sociocultural context, Hip Hop is regarded as one of the strongest popular cultures among today's youth. Realizing how this movement works in a young person's life, we engaged on researching how this process works and why, even though it is no longer the same racial resistance culture of the 1970s, it remains as one of the cultures that most includes young people in social vulnerability. We seek to know what these young people mean by violence and how they deal with it. By means of this initial information, I ask: How can the social inclusion of young people through Hip Hop can minimize the damage caused by violence in society? This etnographic research was carried out from Hip Hop events, through the selection of agents that represent relevance in the movement of the Espírito Santo state, in Brazil. We conducted interviews in their respective areas of activity and, at the end of our research, we gathered the information and compared the similarities and differences of the reports. We perceived how symbolic violence gains a much greater burden on the lives of all agents and we analyze what Hip Hop does in the life of each individual. Theoricalmethodologically, the authors who guide us are Ginzburg, in the indexical perspective, Bourdieu, as regards in the discussions about symbolic power and male domination, Mauss, in his study on the Gift and Foucalt as regards biopolitics and power.