Batalha Beco das Mina: Representatividade no Circuito do Hip Hop de Sorocaba Beco das Mina Battle: Representativity in the Sorocaba’s Hip hop Circuit

Abstract

The present work presents a study about the Beco das Mina Battle, an event that brings together young people to express their experiences in the city, focused in the communication of peripheral women in the city of Sorocaba/SP - Brazil. The objective is to understand the communications of women involved with the hip hop movement, and their relationships with the city, since we understand hip hop as a fundamental communication tool for social understanding. As a methodology, Magnani's city ethnography is used to observe and collect fundamental data for the research, and Bardin's content analysis for the organization and analysis of data. For the theoretical contextualization, it presents the contributions of folkcommunication, as well as authors focused on the object of study. The article presents the importance of the Beco das Mina piece as a fundamental sociocultural practice to understand other perspectives on the experience in the city. The event presents itself as the place of resistance of diverse women and the communication arena for the communicator-leaders of Sorocaba city.