Estados anímicos musicales en el rap puertorriqueño

Abstract

The following research article presents the analysis of the music moods of the Puerto Rican rappers Siete Nueve and Intifada from the study of his lyric work. The article makes an exploration of the songs of both artists compiled in two corpuses elaborated for the present investigation. The pro - posal establishes an interdisciplinary investigative method that links corpus linguistics, concepts and methods derived from the psychology of applied music to the study of moods and emotions, and ethnomusicology to approach hip-hop music and its context in Puerto Rico, as a challenging field of research due in the first instance, to the extension of rap lyrics and the varied mood expressiveness put into this type of music. It concludes on the main moods; the spirituality, the exciting, the desires, the dreams, the seriousness, the aggressiveness, and the upbringing, that represent a high frequency in the samples of the selected musical lyrics and their contexts of enunciation.