Abstract

PINEDA-MARTINEZ, Edgar Oswaldo  and  OROZCO-PINEDA, Paula Andrea. Llanero Rap: Ways of building a sense of territorial belonging through Afro-descendant identity and identification. Rev. eleuthera [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.2, pp.123-138.  Epub May 02, 2023. ISSN 2011-4532.  https://doi.org/10.17151/eleu.2022.24.2.7.

This article presents a reflection on Rap and Hip-Hop aesthetics in young people of African descent who live in the city of Villavicencio. It is intended to show in a particular way how the so-called Llanero Rap configures particular forms of ideology, sensitivity and individuality in the construction of a sense of territorial belonging through Afro-descendant identity and identification. This analysis used a hermeneutic design towards the most representative song lyrics of the musical corpus of the so-called Llanero Rap, musical narratives in which different ways of understanding and seeing the subjects, the city, the aesthetics, and the transcendence of the young Afrollanero. The article finishes by showing the sensitivity and emotionality of the young Afrollanero who expresses his territoriality through a variant of hip hop called Llanero rap.

Keywords : hip-hop; identity; self-determination; Afro-descendants; subjectivity; agency; Villavicencio.

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