Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The present work analyzes the way in which RAP demonstrates the psychological suffering of populations from the outskirts of southeastern Brazil, based on the investigation and analysis of excerpts of songs of this genre, produced by groups/artists of national relevance, from the outskirts of the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The study consists of a reading based on Social Psychology, with the main objective of understanding the way in which this musical style is capable of communicating social problems that permeate its political order and cause psychological suffering for the subjects involved. The guiding theoretical framework for analyzing the chosen songs is the concept of ethical-political suffering proposed by Sawaia (1999), which relates aspects of the dialectic of social inclusion/exclusion with human psychological suffering. The analysis material are songs produced between 1999 and 2003 by artists/groups Racionais Mc’s, Mv Bill, and Facção Central. The analysis of the musical material starts from categories pre-defined by the author. The research result allowed the verification and validation of emotional content from the outskirts through RAP, highlighting the difference in the manifestation of these emotions in each of the selected artists.
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414378019