The Hip Hop: Folk Art from the everyday or tactic resistance to marginalization?

Abstract

This article puts forward a view of Hip Hop in Chile as a plural movement which can be thought of in terms of tactics and strategies of resistance. For that it starts with a general characterization of this practice, considering its different components –music, dance and graffiti– followed by a description of its historical origins and its social context of tensions associated with segregation and urban stigmatization. Then from a review of various researches adopted from history and sociology it address its development in our country, which allows identifying its singularities and its capacity of protest in our recent history. Next we deal with the question of Hip Hop as a popular art taking into account various dimensions in which is expressed the creative capacity of its authors and its public. Finally, we address the political potential of hip hop, exploring its possibilities by being understood as an art of resistance.