The subject in imagined worlds of current trends in verbal performance (stand-up and rap)

Abstract

This article seeks to demonstrate that in stand-up and rap the biographical author gives artistic meaning to and conveys his/herself through the subject in an intentionally syncretic utterance. This is achieved through a clear focus on the coterminous nature of the author and the subject in the reception of the performance, that is to say, through the intentional, even declarative reduction of the artistic element in the “existential truth”. The artistic world is structured and conveyed by its total identification with physical reality and, as a result, through the intentional reduction of the artistic element. This is facilitated by the nature of the subject, since the world of stand-up and rap is nevertheless indeed an imagined artistic world.