“Hoje cedo não era um hit, era um pedido de socorro”: o rap nacional como manifestação do direito de resistência nas periferias brasileiras

Abstract

The Right of Resistance, although not provided for in the Brazilian legal system, as it constitutes an act of denunciation and insurgency in the face of the ineffectiveness of constitutional rules, can also find space in artistic movements that trigger the lack of safeguarding fundamental rights and guarantees. Among these movements, national Rap is included, constitutive element of hip-hop, characterized by providing a critical perspective on the conditions of inequality, injustice and oppression to which the residents of peripheral communities are subjected, constituted, mainly, by poor individuals who, for the most part, are black. Thus, based on the guts that support the Right of Resistance, and, considering that national Rap, as a social movement, is a possible extension of the elements that substantiate this right, the research problem can be defined as follows: To what extent national Rap , as a social movement, can it be recognized as a Right of Resistance given the failure to safeguard rights and guarantees in peripheral Brazilian neighborhoods? With a special focus on the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, the hypothesis suggests that the narratives undertaken through national Rap allow us to observe the reinventions of a resistance process that is in a constant experimental attitude, as well as the power process anchored by the biopolitical machine, because it is understood that Rap may be able to demonstrate the possibilities of resistance action individually or collectively through positions, battles that occupy the public space and collective actions that seek to prioritize the well-being of human life and the safeguarding fundamental rights and guarantees, especially in relation to poor and black individuals living in peripheral regions. The method of approach chosen for the development of this research is the deductive method, using procedures of the bibliographic and documentary type, in which the main theoretical productions related to the theme will be reviewed. Documentary research comprises the examination of materials of a diverse nature, which have not yet received analytical treatment or can be revisited, such as: lyrics, video files, jurisprudence and normative sets. Using especially the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Peter Pal Perbart, bibliographic research, in turn, will compose the analysis of books, theses, dissertations, secure sources of data and statistics, articles and academic journals.