Hip Hop empowers: the experience of Hip Hop practitioners in Morelia, Michoacán

Abstract

This work presents an important part of the thesis that was written to obtain a Master's degree in Cultural Management and Development. It includes a theoretical discussion on culture and cultural management, drawing on various authors, in order to arrive at a diverse and meaningful definition that would be useful for addressing the topic of hip hop. It also addresses the history and birth of hip hop, as well as the rejection it faced for many years in the United States of America. Various authors were consulted in order to generate a theoretical discussion on empowerment. The overall objective of this article is to present the ways in which hip hop has empowered its practitioners. Its main contribution is to show the wide range of possibilities that hip hop has offered from its emergence to the present day.