Abstract EN:

This urban anthropologic thesis reports on a research which evolved with its subject, the hip hop movement in lyon, from the lower-class peripheral neighborhood to the town center, from an environment where everyone knows each other to the urban networks, from the cultural activities sanctioned by political support to the art worlds. . . The analysis of the way the lower-class suburban youths seizedthis movement resulte in the study of various cultural categories "being at work" and subsequently in evidencing a popular and mingled culture. The culture allows them to find in a "baroque" culture (similar to the noble honor in the early seventeeth century) rooted in a residential space transformed into their "own" territory, a structural principle. This thesis shows how reactive identities which grew up in a "exclusion" environment (combining precariousness and stigmatization) aimed at restoring the most critical element this situation had deepty impacted : the self respect. Following the evolution of this movement, the research then studies what happens to this culture outside of its original boundaries. It analyses how it expresses and formalizes itself through the hip hop artistic language and how it is transformed by contact with other artistic and social environments. This research is therefore at the intersection between the social and the cultural.