Rimes de malandrins : du narcocorrido au narco rap

After the narcocorrido, the narco-rap. The former genealogy of popular ballads and of the printed sheets of bandits and smugglers is founded on the culture of the hip-hop –heaps, rhythm, street language, graffiti and urban inscriptions, dance, body in a transe, visceral politics. “What else?”: artis...

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Main Author: Enrique Flores
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2016-05-01
Series:Les Cahiers de Framespa
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/3842
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Summary:After the narcocorrido, the narco-rap. The former genealogy of popular ballads and of the printed sheets of bandits and smugglers is founded on the culture of the hip-hop –heaps, rhythm, street language, graffiti and urban inscriptions, dance, body in a transe, visceral politics. “What else?”: artistic and criminal performance; reality as the kingdom of insane violence; Dante’s hell and Rimbaud’s “time of assassins”; jails, drug and misery; Pancho Villa’s mural; Caballeros águila and body painting; outlaw culture and “warriors of the drug” –from the Brazilian jails to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles; “Reynosa la maldosa”; Marcola, Tiger and Subway 3; “Big Word” and “Murderers Artists”; Gangsta rap; narcopoetry and hallucination; poetics of the crime; “Crime pays: rhyme pays”.
ISSN:1760-4761