Globalizing Locations: Production-Consumption Relations in the Hip-hop Movement in Brazil and Portugal (pages 77-92)
Angela Maria de SOUZA
Article first published online: 25 February 2012

Keywords: hip-hop movement, consumption, rap Creole, rap de quebrada.

Abstract. This article is part of the ethnography for the doctoral thesis in social anthropology, in which the fieldwork was conducted in Greater Lisbon and Greater Florianópolis on the hip hop Movement. This analysis addresses two rap styles, Rap Creole, in Lisbon, made predominantly by Cape Verdeans and Angolans immigrants, and in Florianópolis, rap de quebrada, a form of expression of the population, mostly black residents, of the periphery. In both rap styles can be perceived the development of an aesthetics that becomes outlined in the tension between the individual and the collective, the global and the local. Based on the styles mentioned here, I reflect on consumption relations that create networks and flows among the hip hop movement in different urban spaces, creating a kind of parallel globalization among the peripheries, but remaking itself in a variety of cultural contexts.

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