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In this paper, our goal is to analyze trap music and its development in Spain in recent years. We try to understand its impact among young people, identifying their ethics and aesthetics and finding out how they are perceived among their consumers. Understanding youth cultures as metaphors for social and political changes, we study Spanish trap to find out what it tells us about our society and its recent transformations. Methodologically, we use the analysis of songs and videoclips, we develop interviews and focus groups with young consumers, trappers and producers, and we study representative trapper biographies. Appeared during the crisis that began in 2008 in impoverished areas as a song of the excluded and depoliticized youth, trap will become popular reflecting the concerns of a precarious youth. Trap, we conclude, is a contradictory genre that reproduces the logic of capitalism while opening up spaces for its response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the realm of the Anthropology of public policies, this paper analyzes the processes and state practices surrounding the creation of the categories of "emigrant" and "immigrant". It also analyses how these two categories are created, regulated and managed in the specific context of two labour recruitment schemes in Spain: Spaniards recruited to work abroad during the Franco dictatorship and non-Spaniards recruited to work in Spain in the first decade of the 21st century (2004-2008). The interest of this paper lies in the emergence of a set of discourses and knowledge produced by governments and non-governmental institutions and which is understood as part of a routine of power and tutelary control that fosters the construction of new subjectivities. This essay pays attention to the multiple interactions and encounters of these immigrants and emigrants with civil servants, NGOs, cultural mediators, politicians and businesspeople who are actively involved at the local or national level in processes of labour recruitment for temporary jobs in certain areas of the labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Masculinity is culture's effect, a social construction and a performance, more than a universal and immutable essence. The hegemonic masculine model based on rigid gender difference and built on the stereotype of "macho" and male breadwinner, is doubted in the actual society. Contemporary art, as a social agent and as a powerful way of communication, contributes to questioning this model, by proposing new plural forms of masculinities. In this paper we develop a study about man images created in Spanish actual art, through an analysis of the work of local artists' selection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]