La apropiación de la ciudad vivida desde el freestyle rap

Abstract

What is unveiled about ninth graders’ appropriation at San Bernardo De La Salle school related to the city lived experiences in regard to freestyle rap as a didactic strategy for communication within the framework of an urban culture? that’s the research question orientating this study. In this sense, to attain both: the development of the question and the research objectives outlined in this study, three main constructs were purposed, guiding, and linking this study through the different chapters: city lived experiences, appropriation of the city and narrative, freestyle rap. These constructs were underpinned in the light of the following authors: Michel De Certeau, Martín Heidegger, Jerome Bruner, Armando Silva, Néstor García Canclini y Paula Vera. Thereby, by the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological analysis carried out throughout the different chapters of this study, it is concluded that freestyle rap is an emerging didactic strategy for communication enabling the appropriation of the city lived experiences. That appropriation implied diverse oral narrative productions supporting the different ways, how the city is signified, resignified and lived as a place/space territory, where it is possible to conduct different engagement processes towards to set an imaginary of the city in terms of its physical and symbolic features. Finally, this study allowed to see the relation between the following categories: communication, education, and urban culture; as fields of knowledge that led to explore and comprehend the city as an urban, social, political, economic, formative and communicative phenomena affecting their locals and users’ quality of life.