CERTIFICATES
Certificates of participants
Certificates of presentation of works
About the conference
The International Conference Youth Cultures: Afro-Brazil America aims to establish a forum to discuss the issue of youth urban cultures, supported by the concept of historical telescoping, or just telescoping, according to Walter Benjamin´s ideas. Hip-hop in particular is, with its universal appeal in Brazil or in the Gullahs, in the South of the USA, increasingly marked by hybridism and multiculturalism. Under this condition, hip-hop plays an essential role in educating the young people as individuals, and helps them to understand the world they live in. Besides this role, hip-hop provides many job opportunities and has also created a form of communication among different cultures. The mention of quilombos in Brazilian rap puts into action what Béthune (2003) calls historical telescoping: an updated shout about a painful past, that is the desire for freedom and recognition, which nowadays is translated into a critical-destructive expression present in the lyrics of rap. In Brazil, this telescoping brings to ethno-social identity protests, denounces social gaps and demands whatever has been denied to the afro descendant people. It is a cultural phenomenon, which in its local intersection with the world order, reframing the identity, the culture and the territoriality of the renegades in this globalized world. As the political path of transformation is exhausted, reggae and then, rap promote a new revolution – a cultural revolution – always appealing to the roots.
Guidelines
The main guidelines of the debate will be:
1st day: The hip-hop: Youth cultures, history and resistance;
2nd day: Formation, cultural identity and musicality;
3rd day: Historical telescoping: African-popular culture and Black movement.
Committees
Organizing Committee:
Associate Professor Mônica do Amaral [Commission President]
Carmem Sylvia Vidigal Moraes
Flávia Inês Schilling
Vinicius Puttini
Raquel Martins
Djalma de Leite
Cristiane Correia Dias
Cláudia Dias Prioste
Tatiana Karinya Rodrigues
Ana Cláudia Florindo
Amanda Maramaldo Vieira
Pablo Pamplona
Laura Granado
Agnes Silva Ribeiro
Lourdes Carril
Marco Antonio da Silva
Thiago Batista
Renata Spinelli
Ana Celina Vasconcellos
Maurício Silva
Scientific Committee:
Associate Professor Mônica do Amaral (FEUSP)
Associate Professor Carmem Sylvia Vidigal Moraes (FEUSP)
Prof. Iray Carone (IPUSP)
Prof. Maria Cecília Cortez Souza (FEUSP)
Prof. Flávia Inês Schilling (FEUSP)
Laura Granado (IPUSP)
Paula Nascimento da Silva (FEUSP)
Institutional Support:
Faculty of Education of University of São Paulo (FEUSP)
Graduate Program in Education at FEUSP
Supporting Fund from the Dean Board for University Culture and Studies Extension by USP
