Injetar ódio no cérebro do conformado, informação no desinformado e autoestima no derrotado: a representação indigesta da guerra no rap do Facção Central (1995-2006)

Abstract

This master's thesis deals with the representation of violence throughout the work of the São Paulo rap group Facção Central between 1995 and 2006. The objective of the research is to understand and analyze its uses and meanings when represented from the perspective that the Brazil is experiencing a war scenario with tragic effects for all classes, pitting playboys and favela residents in enemy trenches that continually clash. Conflicts, especially between classes, trigger indigestible and bloodthirsty images and feelings, justified as a kind of revanchism from the periphery in the face of the history of subjugation and extermination practiced by the upper classes. In chapter one, a bibliographical review was carried out based on Hegel and Marx, covering authors such as Walter Benjamin, György Lukács and Theodor Adorno, who, at the beginning of the 20th century, rescued Marxian theory to establish connections between art and society and formulate the bases for a Marxist aesthetic theory. In chapter two, we discuss the antecedents, emergence and consolidation of the Hip Hop movement in the capital of São Paulo in the mid-80s, highlighting the importance of black dances, the process of politicization of rap and the insertion of Facção in this context. Finally, chapter three presents an analysis of the most illustrative songs from each of the six albums, articulating musical and poetic-verbal elements with the substrate of social matter and relating them to the entirety of the artists' work.