Rimando por reconhecimento: a trajetória do movimento Hip Hop em Juiz de Fora na construção de sua identidade

Abstract

This doctoral thesis in Social Sciences reflects about the “Hip Hop” culture in the city of Juiz de Fora; more specifically, about the manner that a group of university students, that lives in one of richest places in the city, reinterprets the fundamental principles of the “Hip Hop” and the way they are seen by the rappers that live in the periphery that, for so long, had their identity shaped by the principles of this movement. How this minority, not in terms of numbers, but in terms of rights, see the fact the other groups take the microphone and speak in their names. We also intend to comprehend a phenomenon that has grown among the “Hip Hop” groups and their relations with social network as a form to combat a very disadvantageous way to be inserted in a capitalist society between social universes so distant to each other, like the periphery and the centre. The complexity of this study gets bigger because this study does not refer to the classical category of misery/poverty; but, on the contrary, try to comprehend the nuances brought by a new configuration of society not necessarily focused on work dimension. In the comprehension of this phenomenon it was necessary to go a long way in the path going through an array of theories from Sociology, Anthropology and Communication. Working with the concepts of identity and recognition, we try to understand how modern identity is made up in a scenario of growing importance of individuality and growing appreciation of important values and neglecting of “strong values”, leading to a weakening of moral values. Taking into account the importance of the recognition that the social context in which we are rooted is the outcome of the history that brought us here. In order to develop this thesis it was undertaken a research that organized the work field to know the “Hip Hop” groups in the city and their configuration both on-line and off-line. Using tool like virtual surveys, work field and audio-visual material production and “netnography”, we try to understand the ways in which the actions taken to get recognition and appreciation of identity are changed by the resignification of what means to be a rapper.