MAMACITA SPEAKS, GOOD-FOR-NOTHING SITS

ARTIVISM, IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND RESISTANCE IN KAROL CONKA

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the lyrics of four songs by rapper Karol Conka as a phenomenon of sociality. Our goal is to identify, in these songs, political-aesthetic elements of counter-hegemonic notation. As a theoretical contribution, the sociological studies of Michel Maffesoli are taken as an instrument of understanding the dynamic processes of identity construction. We suggest, then, that the rapper's poetics, in these songs, has an artivist profile, that is, it stresses the standard esthetic norm centered on the masculine, white, Christian, bourgeois. The theoretical relevance of the research stems from the analytical imperative of understanding the aestheticization of life as a phenomenon of sociality of black and peripheral women. The practical pertinence is expressed in the inevitability, in the current context of popularization of discourses of hatred, of the circulation of counter-canonical studies, as effective and affective means of contestation and resistance. For this research, the songs Tombei, É poder, Lalá and Gandaia were examined for being more emblematic for the present study.