Order 696562: Music in Brazil: Hip Hop and Rap and it′s significance to political movements

Michelle Brake

Music 268: Music in Latin America

Professor Andrea Douglass

Paper #1 Topic Description

Thesis

Hip-Hop and rap in Brazil, specifically in the Sāo-Paulo area, has been used as a means to address political injustices including: poverty, poor education, violence, and drug trafficking. Brazil has learned to used Hip-Hop and Rap, similarly to the United States, to address their concerns with social inequalities. Through music as source to support a social movement to address these issues, Brazilians living in favelas, or slums, have been able to work towards a pedagogy to improve the educational outcomes of the youth population.

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