O RAP COMO LITERATURA AFRO-BRASILEIRA: UMA ANÁLISE POÉTICA DAS CANÇÕES DO ÁLBUM HOMÔNIMO DE OPANIJÉ E GALANGA LIVRE, DE RINCÓN SAPIÊNCIA

Abstract

The present master's dissertation proposes to present rap as part of Afro-Brazilian literature. For this, 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, being an introductory one, another directed to the theoretical reference and finally, the analysis of the songs of the homonymous album of the group Opanijé and of Galanga Livre, by Rincón Sapiência. Henrique Freitas, in order to support the questions proposed Sapiência and Opanijé in his afro rap, a subgenre of rap that maintains an in-depth dialogue with Africanities, from literature to philosophy: Galanga Livre and Ponta de Lanza, from Rincón Sapiência, Encruzilhada and OPANIJÉ, from the group of the same name. In the same, I will address the theme, narrative focus, plot, but also issues related to aesthetics, poetics and literary work of both artists. will 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, cultural policy worldwide. that some rapeiros sometimes declaim their raps. Being an adept of oral poetry, music and dialoguing with different aspects of literature, rap becomes the most authentic musical and literary genre today. Rincón Sapiência and Opanijé masterfully appropriate this diversity writing, singing, dancing, performing, playing, revolutionizing in their afro rap.