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Place markers: Tracking spatiality in Brazilian hip‐hop and community radio
Author(s) -
PARDUE DEREK
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01295.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , community radio , public sphere , sociology , public space , hop (telecommunications) , tracking (education) , media studies , gender studies , political science , telecommunications , social science , politics , law , computer science , engineering , pedagogy , architectural engineering
Community radio and hip‐hop constitute sociopolitical agency in the (sub)urban, working‐class neighborhoods of São Paulo. Practitioners and performers have defined themselves, in part, by their success in “conquering space” and, in turn, have created a productive public sphere. Members of both groups consistently describe what they do as public exchange, a viable and visible option on the part of the disenfranchised to engage in a Habermasian ideal sphere of civic agency. In this article, I argue that it is this epistemology of knowledge as exchange coupled with a sociogeographical presence that make hip‐hop and community radio provocative to local residents and periodically irritating to state authorities.