BRÔ MC’S E O MODO DE SER INDÍGENA
HIBRIDISMO, CULTURA E IDENTIDADE
Abstract
This study focuses on discourses and identity practices embedded in four RAP songs by Brô MC's, the first indigenous group in Brazilian’s Hip Hop. The analysis of the corpora is guided by the following questions: How do the lyrics of the selected songs serve as a mechanism for negotiation between the local and the global, between indigenous and non-indigenous cultures? Which identity facets do the young indigenous Brô artists manifest through their productions, and how do these challenge systems of racial/ethnic representation? The authors constituting the theoretical framework on identity, representation, cultural hybridity, and third space include Bhabha (2013), Canclini (2013), Hall (1997, 2003, 2016, 2019), and Silva (2014). The results indicate that, through RAP, the artists keep the Guarani-Kaiowá culture and oral tradition alive and updated and, based on them, are building their practices of resistance, subversion and negotiation. Additionally, through RAP, they manifest their indigenous way of being and appropriate global languages to redefine them in their local sociocultural context, constructing a critique of the prevailing system.
