O Hip Hop não para!: A cultura urbana que invadiu a cidade de Manaus - AM

Abstract

The photographic images exhibited in this anthropological essay are related to a visual ethnography of Hip Hop culture events and their four basic artistic elements (Rap music, Break dance, Graffiti and Deejay figure) during the Day celebrations. Hip Hop World Championship celebrated on November 12, 2019 in various regions of the city of Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas.

We toured numerous areas of the city where parties, concerts, dances were held (so called Hip Hop meetings where the intention is to dance, listen to music and talk) on dates and organized by distinct groups to understand this universe and its heterogeneity of people, body aesthetics, images, shapes, colors, styles, garments and electronic beats.

In this sense, we insist on claiming that Hip Hop culture is a phenomenon of global and hereditary magnitude of the African Atlantic Diaspora and that, therefore, brings with it a whole load of discrimination, lack of information, fears and prejudices linked to everything it remembers or point out something like African and / or Afro-Brazilian culture. All this leads to a process of invisibility that is much fought by Hip Hop activists. Hip Hop is a relief valve for this youth.

Hip Hop culture is no longer restricted only to peripheral and / or considered marginalized areas of large cities. The sound of Rap music and the graffiti-exposed paints surpass topographic barriers and spread like gunpowder fuses through the centers, condominiums, stilts, mangroves, “broken” and far-flung outskirts.

These are visual records of the assembly of some events, the performances of Breakdance or Street Dance dancers, graffiti artists and graffiti artists painting outdoors, the musicality of the Deejay's and the MC's rhyming miles on the microphones.

The effort to capture these aspects is umbilically linked to the field work for the construction of the doctoral thesis project entitled FOUR HEADS OF AN URBAN HYDRA AND AN AFRICAN BUMERANG IN THE HIP HOP CULTURE OF MANAUS - AM developed under the Postgraduate Program in Amazonian Society and Culture (PPGSCA) of the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM).

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Authors:Sidney Barata de Aguiar

photographs:Sidney Barata de Aguiar

Direction, Image and Text Editing:Sidney Barata de Aguiar