O rap como literatura afro-brasileira:uma análise poética das canções do álbum de estreia do grupo Opanijé,e Galanga Livre,de Rincón Sapiência

Abstract

The present master's thesis aims to present rap as Afro-Brazilian literature. For this purpose, I will use songs by the Bahian rap group Opanijé and the São Paulo rapper Rincon Sapiência as a corpus of analysis. The work is divided into three parts: the first is an introduction; the second, directed to the theoretical framework; and finally, the analysis of the songs from the homonymous album by the group Opanijé and from Galanga Livre, by Rincon Sapiência. In this work, I take as the main theoretical key the concept of “Literature-Terreiro”, coined by the author Henrique Freitas, in order to support the questions proposed by Sapiência and Opanijé in their afro rap, a subgenre of rap that maintains an in-depth dialogue with the Africanities, from literature to philosophy. Four works will be analyzed in full, they are: Galanga Livre and Ponta de Lanka, by Rincon Sapiência; Encruzilhada and O.P.A.N.I.J.É., from the group of the same name. In them I will address the theme, the narrative focus, the plot, but also issues related to aesthetics, poetics and the literary work of both artists. Afro rap construction techniques, lyrical, metric and rhythmic composition will also accompany the research. The theoretical reference is located in Souza (2011), Martins (2003), Gilroy (2012), Freitas (2017), Hall (2003) and others that focus on black artistic-literary productions in Brazil and in the diaspora, about rap, the hip-hop movement and its musical revolution, and cultural politics around the world. As a poetic literary genre, rap has certain specificities, because, in addition to being written, it is sung and spoken at the same time, and recited, since some rapeiros sometimes declaim their raps. Being close to oral poetry, setting music and dialoguing with different aspects of literature, rap becomes the most authentic musical and literary genre today. Rincon Sapiência and Opanijé masterfully appropriate this diversity by writing, singing, dancing, performing, playing, revolutionizing their Afro rap.