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About (and with) the crossroads of the indigenization of Hip Hop in Brazil

Abstract

Based on the experience and studies in the field of culture and education, with a post-structural and post-colonial, as well as a post-foundational focus, this proposal proposes to argue that deconstruction is not the end of a culture, is not its destruction; but it's your chance to stay alive. No culture is pure or watertight, but it is ongoing through the practices of meaning, from which there is always a possibility of opening up meanings. Therefore, its objectification is still its death; since the social, cultural and political use is independent, at some level, from the forms of academic confinement. Breaking with thoughts of purity, this text highlights numerous ways of articulation that provoke changes in Hip Hop culture. Instead of a search for origin or authenticities, it advises scholars to observe the articulations at play in each context, perceiving them not as a priori data; as the subjects, what we call contextual scenarios, do not pre-exist the demands, but part of the sense production system. The text also wants to emphasize the different forms of agency that indigenous people mobilize from the Hip Hop scene.