No ritmo do quilombo urbano: cultura, política, militância e lutas sociais no hip-hop do Maranhão

Abstract

This research proposes to analyze the forms of articulation between culture and politics undertaken by the Hip-Hop Movement Organized in Maranhão Quilombo Urbano, founded in 1989, but baptized with the terminology presented here in 1992, whose participants are mostly men and women who live in peripheral neighborhoods of the city of São Luís, capital of Maranhão, and who claim to be black “from the hoods”, revolutionaries and socialists. Throughout this research, we seek to understand how Quilombo Urbano organizes its actions. Methodologically, this research is based on qualitative data and has an interdisciplinary theoretical basis. Seeking to capture a greater complexity of these actions, we investigate the trajectories of some members of the movement, present some ethnographic reports of the acts and reflect on the originating processes of internal and external disputes. Data were extracted from field research, interviews, ethnographies, discourse analysis, song lyrics, rhymes and document analyses.