Oficinas de composição musical com jovens: reflexões metodológicas para uma práxis transformadora.

This article aims at describing and problematizing issues related to the operationalization of music composition workshops with young people from the hip-hop movement, presenting the potentialities and difficulties of using this technique in qualitative research. The study was carried out in a community on the outskirts of Cubatão, in the coast of São Paulo, according to the socio-historical psychology reference. It used the methodology of the workshops, proposing some pathways and methodological strategies for youth research. Emotional bonds are an important strategy for the construction of knowledge and the realization of the workshops with the participation of the young people, including these as facilitators and not only as interlocutors of the study. The qualitative research and music composition workshops can foster in young people a critical reflection of reality through the objectification of their subjectivity, in a work that is dialectically individual and collective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]