Socio-anthropologie (Dec 2023)
Analyse d’une forme, urbaine et musicale
Abstract
Hip-hop was born in the open air and it aimed to offer an alternative to street violence. Dancing, painting graffiti, producing sound, rapping, are located activities that involve the body, gestures, fictions. In the late 80’s, the musics played, the stories rapped and the postures adopted seemed to display great consistency. The thyrse figure, in contrast to the grid, a rigid urban form, fueled a labile imaginary which could be found in the different modes of rap music. It may thus be argued that the rapper became an archi-citadin, a specialist in urban forms, a citizen able to criticize an uncaring city.
