Racionais MCs' Sobrevivendo no Inferno

Derek Pardue (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3887-8 (ISBN)

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In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the ‘Rational’ MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip-hop scene in São Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil. In an era when rappers needed to defend the very idea that their work was indeed music and a time when neighborhoods such as Capão Redondo, from where Racionais frontman Mano Brown hailed, often topped homicide statistics, Sobrevivendo empowered as it provoked. As one journalist noted, “the underworld of São Paulo’s working-class suburbs is dominated by cheap thrills and provides little space for representation.” Sobrevivendo changed all of that; a brutal but invigorating imagination was born.

The lure of Sobrevivendo is the particular combination of word and sound that powerfully involves listeners, especially those millions of young Brazilians who live in the neighborhoods on the periphery of Brazil’s megacities. This book celebrates the 25-year anniversary of Sobrevivendo by representing the album’s power not only within the hip-hop community but also in other cultural domains such as cinema and literature. The author also provides his own narrative spins on the sentiment of Sobrevivendo, thus making the book a creative mix of cultural analysis and inspired testimony.

Derek Pardue holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and is an Associate Professor in Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has conducted fieldwork and archival research in Brazil, Portugal, Denmark, and Cape Verde. His books include: Living (Il)legalities in Brazil (2020), Cape Verde: Let’s Go (2015), Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak from the Margins (2011), and Ruminations on Violence (2008).

An Opening Salve
1. Who Cares about Brazilian Rap?
2.Brazilian Hip Hop: A Brief Genealogy
3.Sound, Text, Delirium
4.Dreams at the Beginning
5.A Go-getter
6.The Wait
7.It’s Everywhere
8.Wesley’s House
9. The Laugh and the Echo
10. Nóia / The Sounds of Paranoia
11. Guina’s Turn
12. Surroundings
13. …
14. Aleph in the Periferia
15. In Search of Authority
16. Outro
Notes
Glossary

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3 Brazil
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-3887-0 / 1501338870
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-3887-8 / 9781501338878
Zustand	Neuware