The improvised rhyme battles of the hip-hop movement in Cimba Park, in Araguaína-TO

literacy practices of re-existence of peripheral youth

Abstract

In this article, we analyze how the improvised rhyme battles of the hip-hop movement held weekly at Parque Cimba, in Araguaína-Tocantins, constitute literacy practices of re-existence in which young MCs create their rhymes based on sociocultural themes that permeate their experiences in the peripheral regions where they live. We also analyze how these rhyme battles are incorporated into school environments as teaching objects with the aim of contributing to the formation of students as literary readers. The discussions presented are based on the theoretical contributions of Hall (2006), Souza (2011), Patrocínio (2013), Hill (2014), among others. This study is an excerpt from the doctoral thesis “Hip-hop and marginal-peripheral literature: contributions to reading formation in schools”, by Leomar Alves de Sousa (2024), defended in the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics and Literature at the Federal University of Northern Tocantins – UFNT. The article consists of a participatory research with qualitative analysis, in which we point out that through improvised rhyme battles, MCs express their experiences as young people from the periphery who make a critical-social reading of their life contexts from the perspective of re-existence in the face of these realities.