This paper reflects on the usage of the body in practices of social protest and its link with art and activism; these practices are contextualized within the protests and demonstrations for Ayotzinapa. This approach assumes that the body that protests is an "extended body", a subject with the capacity for agency in social life; this capacity is exercised through its collective expression. Specific cases are discussed in dancistic actions executed by members from the Asamblea de la Comunidad Artística, in the political and cultural occupation of the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, which can be considered as strategies of artistic activism (artivism) with the intention of elucidating how, when "the body is being put" to protest, artistic and aesthetic experiences are produced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Since the end of the twentieth century an indigenous artistic movement has emerged in Mexico using the musical genre known as rap. This paper seeks to understand the way in which young indigenous people who emigrated to the city transmit and disseminate their values and ideologies through this genre. The results obtained from an analysis of the qualitative content of the songbook of the group "New Republic" refer to the way in which they participate in a political and social activism, with which they seek to rescue, reinforce and implant the roots o their ethnic identity, while they try to insert themselves fully into the globalized world in which they are immersed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]