Narrativas contemporáneas del rap: ejercicio pedagógico, de memoria y representación social

Abstract

Hip hop culture, composed of rap, table turning, break dancing and graffiti, emerged in the slums of New York in the 1970s as a form of expression for African-American communities in contexts of poverty. Within this culture, rap has become a narrative tool to reflect the socioeconomic and cultural realities of these communities.The research focuses on rap as a social discourse and its role in the construction of consciousness, political formation and memory in hip hop communities in the southwest of Bogotá, using the concept of Social Appropriation of Knowledge as a connecting element of the communicative discourse proposed in the research and subsequent audiovisual product.

In the investigative journalism work with communities, the stories of memory, cultural expression and the construction of critical discourses were analyzed, highlighting the role of MCs as narrators of the social reality of the neighborhoods. In addition to the acquisition of this critical stance by the HipHop communities in the different neighborhoods of the southwest of the capital treated in the research. The final product was ultimately guided by the path of self-recognition and by the desire to narrate, to note the community relations generated by communicative practices based on particular territorial dynamics in each case. To do so, it was necessary to bring out of anonymity many of the chronicles that contain the stories that tell how these social dynamics develop, to analyze the raw lyrics within these songs and to approach the different MCs, who act as narrators of the reality of the events that are experienced in the streets, in the neighborhoods.