{"id":29451,"date":"2020-12-21T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsis.gr\/?p=29451"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:33:13","slug":"giusi-andriano-my-way-to-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/giusi-andriano-my-way-to-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Giusi Andriano – My way to Hip hop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s like a jungle sometimes it makes me\nwonder how I keep from going under broken glasses everywhere <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

people pissing on the stairs, you know they\njust don\u2019t care I can\u2019t take the smell, I can\u2019t take the noise got no money to\nmove out, I guess I got no choice\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by\nMartha Cooper <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The words above come from the\nsong \u201cThe Message<\/em>\u201d of Grandmaster\nFlash, one of the most important DJs of Hip Hop culture. This culture was born\nin the Bronx, the quartier of New York in the 70s. It highlights a context of\nsocial disadvantages which could be compared to many contexts in the world of\nnowadays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I call it \u201cthe other side of the world<\/em>\u201d, and by that I mean the one who goes\nslowly, the less visible, the one that makes life harder for different reasons,\nabove all political. A world where sometimes you don\u2019t have access to basic\nservices, and your lifestyle is not to collect money as a goal for your\nsatisfaction. A world where you live out of the concept of materiality because\nyour priorities are further. In this context, made of doubts and\nprecariousness, was born an art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hip Hop doesn\u2019t talk only about\nmusic. It talk about life, the street lifestyle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow you act, walk, look and talk is all\npart of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from\nBlack, brown, yellow, red and white.” – Africa Bambaata<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have approached this culture\nsince I was a child because I was always fascinated to know cultures which were\napparently far from mine: the other side\nof the world<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent my teenage years in a small village in the poorest\nregion of south Italy, playing in the street and I think that influenced my\ngrowth temperamentally, not to grow up under the dominant values of\nmaterialism, or under the educational forms of television and media. I was free\nto create my form of expression through the interaction with other friends. It\nhelped me to give voice to my instinct and to my personality, and I realized it\nwhen, while I was attending the ballet school, I was making an enormous effort\nto stay under the discipline and rigor concepts coming from the aristocratic\nenvironment where classical ballet was born. I couldn\u2019t express myself through\ncompliance with already established fees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Feb 2019, Turin, Italy. My friends and I, dancing during a protest against the police eviction of a squat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Feb\n2019, Turin, Italy.  My friends and I,\ndancing during a protest against the police eviction of a squat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I approached hip hop because it\ntalk about something not solved, something to fight for. It concerns the circle\nof intangible values which are, for me, the real values of life to focus on,\nwhich often depends on the ways we have built the society and on the wrong\nimportance we have given to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hip Hop is my way to understand and express my dissent towards the wrong form of our society and to feel supportive with the other side of the world, <\/em>because it means multiculturalism, against patriarchy, against machism, against any form of deprivation where white, blacks and latinos expressed themselves through the arts, and created a common language in order to change the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace, love, unity and have fun<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under broken glasses everywhere people pissing on the stairs, you know they just don\u2019t care I can\u2019t take the smell, I can\u2019t take the noise got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice\u201d Photo by Martha Cooper … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erasmus","category-volunteers-voices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}