Chilean Hip-Hop The chilean hip hop was born about 90’s and it has a lot of influences. At Chile, we can realize that they shared some characteristics with De Kiruza, and even the most radical groups can find roots in Public Enemy, as an example of a band from United States, country that has been the ‘target’ of many criticisms. Nevertheless, hip hop isn’t just a music style. In fact, those who belong to this culture say that hip hop is composed by the rap (poetry as an oral expression), the disc jockey (who controls the rhythm and made the ‘scratchs’), the break dance, the graffiti, the beatboxing, etc. By definition, hip hop is a way of life that finds, on the street of their cities, the inspiration to write down what they see and also to make something about it. At this point, we can notice there’s an interesting thing about chilean hip hop. It is very close to the politic discussion. Maybe because they are part of the quotidian suffer. I feel a true admiration for their ca
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When I had to decide for a career, I was worried about the subjects I would learn and how the university would broach them. So I applied to Psychology at Universidad de Chile, especially because I realized it shares the faculty with other disciplines that are related to the social area too (‘Facultad de Ciencias Sociales’). In that sense, I would say that I admire the way Víctor Jara lived and died. I believe he could understand the spirit of their fellow countrymen and fellow countrywomen. He was born on 1932. The family was poor. His mother and father were always at work; he was illiterate, she knew how to read a little bit. Almost everybody thinks that Victor only was a singer, but he participated on the chorus of the church, he went to the military, he studied to be an actor (instead of that, he preferred to direct), he went over this country to rescue popular poetry and he took part of one of the greatest moments of the chilean history (brief, but deeply intense). Well, to unders