“El dinero de los contribuyentes”: subvirtiendo el sentimiento anti-bienestar a través de letras de rap irlandesas

Autores/as

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2022-10719

Palabras clave:

Clase obrera, Irlanda, hip hop, prestación social, poesía, política

Resumen

Desde la década de los noventa, los MCs de hip-hop de clase obrera en Irlanda han criticado la burocracia dentro de la seguridad social irlandesa a través de sus subversivas letras de rap. Al igual que la mayoría del hip hop mundial, el rap irlandés utiliza la política de oposición para contrarrestar las ideas estigmatizadoras de clase difundidas por las clases dominantes, en particular los estereotipos negativos que rodean a sectores de la sociedad que reciben prestaciones del sistema. Aunque no se reconozca dentro de los estudios literarios irlandeses, estos letristas están produciendo contra-narrativas de clase obrera frente al sentimiento clasista anti-prestación irlandés a través de su lírica. Este artículo parte de estudios a nivel irlandés e internacional sobre el Hip-Hop para defender que el rap irlandés debería considerarse como poesía irlandesa de clase obrera con su propio valor literario y cultural. Tomando como objeto principal de estudio la obra de un grupo de hip-hop de Louth, TPM (Taxpayers’ Money “Dinero del contribuyente”), este artículo analiza el rap irlandés como poesía. Utilizando un análisis textual detallado, se examina cómo los poemas de rap de TPM utilizan mensajes de lucha y la estética de la clase obrera a modo de protesta y crítica de la hegemonía anti-prestación en Irlanda.

Biografía del autor/a

Clodagh Heffernan, University College Cork

Clodagh Heffernan is a working-class scholar and a first-generation academic from Ireland.  She completed a bachelor’s degree in English and History at Maynooth University in 2018, and she achieved a First-Class Honours master’s degree in Irish Writing and Film from University College Cork in 2021. Clodagh recently began her PhD project at UCC under the title Protest Writing and Dissent Culture in Contemporary Working-Class IrelandPoetics of Defiance, supervised by Dr Heather Laird and Dr Adam Hanna. Her PhD combines Gramscian Marxism with working-class autoethnographic reflections to illuminate the subversive aesthetic and conceptual qualities of the work of Irish writers who self-identify as working class. Clodagh’s work focuses on working-class Irish poetry, hip hop, crime fiction, and unpublished community writing from the neoliberal period in Ireland (1980 – present), examining the representation of working-class interactions with state forces such as the systems of social welfare, policing, education, and public arts funding bodies. Her research interests include working-class studies, the intersections between literary form and content, Irish social policy, genre fiction, traditional and alternative poetic forms, hip hop studies, Marxism, and cultural theories.

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Publicado

17-03-2022

Cómo citar

Clodagh Heffernan. (2022). “El dinero de los contribuyentes”: subvirtiendo el sentimiento anti-bienestar a través de letras de rap irlandesas. Estudios Irlandeses, 17(1), 41–53. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2022-10719