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Accepted Paper:

Hip-Hop Revolución: Music, Solidarity and Idealism in Urban Venezuela  
Pablo Navarrete (Alborada Films, University of Bradford)

Paper short abstract:

Drawing on extracts from a forthcoming film on 'Hip-hop Revolucion', this paper looks at the influence of hip-hop collectives on collective political agency in contemporary Venezuela.

Paper long abstract:

Since its inception in 1970s New York, hip-hop has grown into a multilingual, global yet localised and regional collection of cultural expressions based around the four elements of rapping, break dancing, djing and graffiti. Descendants of Latin American immigrants in the United States were instrumental in the foundations of hip-hop's four elements, adapting some of the cultural traditions of their ancestor's homelands to a different environment and time.

Hip-hop in Latina America has grown to the point where Latin American artists are now major influences for some US Latino and non-Latino artists. In Venezuela a political hip-hop collective 'Hip-hop Revolucion' (HHR) emerged in 2003 and has grown to the point that by the end of 2011 they had created 31 hip-hop schools around the country and had become a focal point for the political hip hop scene in Latin America. While sympathetic to the Bolivarian government and process of change underway in Venezuela, HHR have been uncompromising in their denunciations of the problems they see within Chavismo.

Drawing on extracts from a forthcoming film on HHR, this paper looks at the influence of hip-hop collectives on collective political agency in contemporary Venezuela.

Panel P23
Venezuela after Chavez: ethnographic perspectives on the past, present and future of Bolivarianism
  Session 1