FREESTYLE FROM THE STREET TO THE SCREEN (AND BACK TO THE STREET)

A PROPOSAL FOR AN APPROACH AND SITUATED ANALYSIS OF RAP IN PANDEMIC

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on how to analytically consider and approach the intervention of the pandemic by Covid-19 in the course of practices that had been studied using ethnographic tools in the period prior to this contingency, proposing a view that allows to understand what the irruption of the pandemic has done to the practice and its practitioners. The case of Argentinean rap is consider, and in particular freestyle battles, in their spatial transfer to virtuality and their progressive return to performances in urban public spaces. As a result of the analysis of these displacements, a reflection is made on intercorporality and co-presentiality as fundamental aspects of the practice. It is expected to contribute to the analysis of construction of subjectivities in a particular context where a specific formation process occurs.