“E do Hip Hop eu aprendi o que é revolução”: o Rap e suas signific(ações) para jovens de Santa Maria

Abstract

Youth is characterized for being a phase where several issues and numerous challenges are envisaged. This reality intensifies in the moment critical social contexts goes through the youth experience, being these scenarios localized mostly in the cities peripheries. This way, an example of strategies adopted by young people, who interact in these territories to overcome these adversities are uncountable, is the hip-hop movement. The movement is composed by break dance, graffiti and rap, having this last one assumed centrality in this work, which aims to get to know the meanings attributed to rap by young people from Santa Maria/RS city. This research, which has qualitative characteristic, has been performed through semi-structured interview with six young hip-hop movement participants in the city. After the interviews’ audios transcription, the data was analyzed by Content Analysis. The research results were clustered in five categories, that discuss the social situations and their implications in young people’s live trajectories; the rap as emancipation instrument; these youth inspirations; the Santa Maria’s rap scenario; and the kinds of battle that composes hip-hop movement and the Batalha dos Bombeiros Event. The final considerations highlights the importance of rap in the lives of interviewed young people, beside in the interlocution with experiences and social problems that go through their contexts. At last, the relevance of art as a mediator in the visibility process is emphasized.