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Brazil:
Rap Music
Rap and the telenovela are like
two worlds and both say something about Brazilian society.
Academics believe soap operas try to show a make-believe
world which does not reflect a faithful picture of Brazilian
reality.
Rap is the opposite, it states what really happens among
the poor, young Black Brazilians. The telenovelas try
to keep people sedated and satisfied; rap music is like
a social scream. Rap artists try to alert people, drawing
attention to what is really happening within a culturally
and ethnically diverse nation.
The music helps to create a social consciousness. It tries
to inform the nation, including the government and the
authorities, about what is happening to the marginalised
segments of the population.
Rap
lyrics denounce the problems of the black youth, in particular.
"There are a couple of rap artists called P.MC and
DJ Deco Murphy who have a rap called, “all this here is
ours too.”
It's about the Brazilian world, which they are told belongs
to everyone, to all Brazilians. But now they’re demanding
it for themselves. They say at the end of this lyric,
everything I have a right to, I want to have, because
all this here is ours too."
"Within
Brazil there is an extraordinary paternalistic attitude
to black people and to their culture. There was always
a strong current of people who objected to blacks, who
were identifying with their peers in the black diaspora
- in North America, the Caribbean, even in Europe.
Professor
David Treece, Kings College
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