Hip-Hop echoes in south Madrid teenagers’ soundscapes

Abstract

This paper draws on findings from a collaborative ethnographic project with 13–14 year old adolescents in an educationally progressive secondary school in Madrid. The project developed as an educational innovation experience during music lessons and allowed students to collaboratively produce multimodal soundscapes on the role of music in their daily lives. This analysis focuses on the place of Hip-Hop in these adolescents’ musical and expressive cultures, especially as traces of Hip-Hop esthetics are incorporated into the projects created during the project. Our analysis suggests that traces of Hip-Hop culture (as a broad global manifestation involving various expressive practices such as rap, dance or graffiti) emerge in a variety of ways in students’ productions.