HIP HOP: A CORPORAL PRACTICE (EXPRESSION) THAT TERRITORIALIZE MEDELLIN CITY

Abstract

This article is part of the research Appropriation of dancing urban corporal practices by young people of the city of Medellin – Commune 13 (Col.), which was developed in the master in Motricity and human development of the University of Antioquia. In this article we analyze, through an urban ethnography, how young people from the city create a cultural territory by practicing Hip-Hop. An artistic expression that develops in the middle of the tensions that takes place among young people, institutions, citizens and the legal and illegal organizations.