“Hip-hop com sotaque do Porto: Vozes de ativismo e de intervenção social (2021)” [Hip-hop with a Porto accent: Voices of activism and social intervention” by Sérgio Valdemar da Silva Ribeiro | Master’s Thesis

Abstract: “In the last decade, hip-hop has established itself as the most listened to music genre in the world. As na artistic-cultural movement, especially attractive to the younger strata of society, which dictates some of the most relevant paradigms of contemporary urban living, its social impact proves to be quite relevant in the context of sociological research. Portuguese-speaking hip-hop, since its consolidation in the portuguese music scene around the 1990s, has become quite diversified and has influenced different generations. This project aims to analyze the work of artists from Greater Porto who, since the beginning of their musical careers, have always adopted a sense of activism and social intervention through their work and projects. It is intended to understand the development of the hip-hop scene in Porto and analyze the role of this (sub)culture/scene as a weapon of communication, identification and, in general, social intervention in portuguese society.

In the current panorama, in which much mainstream pop music trivializes and/or massifies – globally – values and attitudes, it is important to highlight artists who, on a local scale, aim to make a difference, creating works and projects for action and intervention in the face of structuring problems of young people’s daily lives. Through a predominantly qualitative research, two broad and very emblematic case studies
emerge: Mind Da Gap and Dealema. Few sociological research works have been elaborated on Porto’s hip-hop; and even less about these two relevant bands. This Dissertation entails theoretical research on music as an agent of social change and empirical research on the creations of the artists under analysis and their own
conceptions on the theme presented, considering this dialogical as the most promising and disruptive  research strategy in the panorama of sociology of arts, culture and music in contemporary Portugal.”

Keywords: hip-hop, artivism, intervention, music, Greater Porto.

 

This master’s thesis, written by Sérgio Valdemar da Silva Ribeiro under the guidance of Professor Paula Guerra, was defended in 2021 in the Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Porto, and is available in Portuguese in the University of Porto’s Open Repository.

ANO

2021

AUTORES

Sérgio Valdemar da Silva Ribeiro

EDITORES

Paula Guerra