Tem lugar para o rap na 'Cidade Canção'?

Abstract

This work analyzes three rap songs from the group Realidade Nacional – Cidade Canção (2001), Femucic (2001) and Femucic (Parte 2) (2006) – and discusses the identity construction of this literary-musical genre and its community in the city of Maringá (Paraná). Among the themes addressed in its corpus are political, cultural, and social issues characteristic of Maringá, the reception of the genre in the city and the struggle in defense of the artistic stance of the local hip hop scene. Relying on a theoretical framework related to the literature, the music, the history, the Hip Hop movement and identity studies, this work employs a methodology of analytic-interpretative nature to perform a reading of the verbal language of the raps. According to the dynamics of identities as discussed in Manuel Castells (1999), the rappers draws the path of a resistance identity, that leads to a project identity, because build a different life project that aims to break the logic of domination and transform the social structure around them.