Enrique Chacón wears baggy clothes, hat, shorts and sneakers. Their music is hip hop. It is a bboys (dancer), belongs to a crew (group) and every day, for four and a half years, met with other young people to dance breakdance, one of the defining elements Hiphop culture in the New New Circus. "Breakdancing is life, leaving the routine. It's more than a hobby. You love dancing, love yourself, "says Chacon. Musical genres, comics, dance styles, ways of thinking about video games and life are some of the interests that bring many young people into these forms of social aggregation. The term urban tribe was popularized by French philosopher Michel Maffesoli. In his book The Time of the tribes, the decline of individualism in mass societies (1990) suggests that these are "micro-" of large cities, associated with intense emotions, to search for new forms of sociability and the need to space to express themselves. For Reinaldo Iturriza, a sociologist at the UCV, the concept refers to "forms of social aggregation and organization with a strong identity and weight that are mediated by culture", which distinguishes the tribes of the parties and labor organizations and trade unions. The tribes not only know their language and clothing. "They have to do with an aesthetic, even with an ethic, often mediated by the commercial" she says. Freddy Silva, a sociologist at the UCV, did his thesis on urban tribes. From 2006 to 2009 produced for TV Avila Kolectivoz program dedicated to urban expressions visible. Silva refers to these tribes move in two dimensions: a rebellious, which is part punk, emerged in the mid 70's in London and Tottenham, as a labor movement, hip hop, which takes power in late claim 70 in the African American civil rights, and the Rastafari, who shares with hiphop the claim of Africanness. Within this category you insert the Emo movement, he says, not looking for a transformation of society, but responds to a logic existentialist. Luis Laje, 19 year old, living in the Los Naranjos, El Cafetal, is defined as an Emo kid. "You get into the rough feel moved by the depressed," says Laje. The name comes from the term Emo Emotional English, which translates as "emotional." "It's full existential depression and suicidal," said Silva. Has relevance to young middle to upper class. In them, there is the phenomenon of the cuts in the skin. Feel injured for life. "It is linked to the material, suicide and depression. Also, there is a trend towards the recognition of homosexuality, "he says. Emo Laje mind that usually meet in places like the Plaza Francia in Altamira. "We talked about things that have happened, the music we listen to, but usually on the sad experiences" he says. In his case, he says, the sadness comes from the fact that his family did not pay attention. "I do not stop. Everything is my brother. I excluded a radical way, "he says. Answer yes when asked if you have the habit of cutting into the body. Shows the scars on one wrist. "Depending on the state of depression … Sometimes you cut deeply so to remember the experience," he says. In our country there is a process of redefinition, which is how a movement that eventually self-released messages of anti-militarism, of anti-capitalism, takes on new meaning, says Silva. "It is with dreadlocks. As a culture clings be exogenous and appropriating, in turn becomes smooth, as does the cultural industry, and disdaining his strongest political reference, leaving out important elements. " He explains that the culture industry has an exercise of ownership of these protest groups to sweeten. "It softens and removes the political discomfort of motion and marketed as a commodity. There is a reappropriation sweetened "he says. "The punk movement is a response to all workers rights abuse. His aesthetic includes military-style boots, which were worn by workers in factories. Subsequently, the punk aesthetic began to put him to paint colors, and brand emerged Doctor Martens boots. The cultural industry throws (the punketos) crowded market, the movement becomes nice and cool. It trivializes the cultural industry, "he says. In Caracas, hip-hop movement has had a major boom. "It is the largest tribe and political contestation," says Iturriza. They have found space for example, the Urban Arts Lab (LAU), Endogenous Culture Core Tiuna El Fuerte. This group, says Silva, understood that the process of inclusion of young people who may be prone to violence must be passed by reference tempting for them. "(Ideally) is not putting them in a school of political cadres, to teach them how to intervene a wall, how lyrical rhyme on a track they produce. The LAU understood that a balance training process could generate social inclusion, so has the group Hip Hop Revolution. There has been a hip hop political work in Venezuela and has been an increase in movement adherents African Rap Poet, who is African Revolutionary Poetry. " Regarded as an "old tribe", the Rastafari movement, jamaquino and African origin, has strong foothold in Venezuela. They go to Avila when he meets the birthday of Marcus Garvey, National Hero of Jamaica, founder of the Universal Association for the Improvement of the Black Man, and Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's ambassador last considered by the Rastafarian movement as "Black Messiah." They have a congregation in San Jorge and Chuspa (Vargas), where they promote self-cultivation. "When you see them, do you think are outstanding shaman walk only to hear music, but when you investigate, you realize that there are some moves that go beyond the speech," said Silva. The Raptor House is another movement that has taken off. Also known as Tukis, they reject the label to be pejorative. It arises in the popular sectors. Dance electronic music, have a strong influence of the culture industry without political evocations. "They have been stigmatized and criminalized, even from progressive sectors," says Iturriza. Its criminalization is, to Silva, the same poverty, ie, has a class origins. "It maintains the logic of the Shaman is sitting in an alley at 7:00 pm with a basquetero shorts, a black point (Nike sneakers) and a shirt, has drugs, will sell and goes get in trouble. But if you go to Santa Fe, in the municipality Baruta, and you see a shaman with the same outfit, but straight hair, sitting in a field, you think walking his dog. " Another popular movement in Venezuelan cities is Otaku. It brings together young fans to anime and Japanese manga. The convention calls are events where they are and assist with cosplay (costume of their favorite characters). Just as there are those who have drawn on foreign imaginary, "in our popular culture are emerging with more anchor movements in the city", or so says Silva. And in these new tribes include the motor and the "prolonged youth." In the case of the former, says the boom has brought bikes from extreme sports, such as "caballeteo" to work activities, such as mototaxistas. "You go through the Avenida Sucre (the mototaxistas) have their shirt with a jazzy name. Gather to play trick until you leave your career, watching videos on Youtube by phone. They have their codes, their chalequeo, is an urban tribe, "he says. Silva believes that the elderly people that live in all black athletic shoes the city and organized according to a need is also an urban tribe. "Mauro de Catia is a strong spokesman for the movement. In the square you see Andrés Eloy Blanco playing dominoes, no Kurd fall, but coffee, and Friday night, then put together their rumba. They have interests and cultural and material needs and to satisfy them stick together, "he adds. Iturriza warns that "politically incorrect media", but notes as a young urban tribe of the Frente Francisco de Miranda. He calls them "tomatoes". "There was a boom in the country of revolutionary militancy. It was a shaman who received a crash course in Marxism-Leninism. They are very impetuous and admire that, at the same time are very dogmatic, "he says. "It's a cultural product with a lot of weight in the political, very characteristic of the Venezuelan, the fruit of the Bolivarian Revolution, with a mix of heritage as we have received the Cuban Revolution," he argued. According to Silva, the recognition by the state institutions of these expressions, in which the protagonist is young, is important. "It's about building an alternative to capitalism that has been softened and tamed. They are struggling for change. It's time to listen, "he says. Estimated that in 2011 there was an opening. He instances the cultural agenda of PDVSA-La Estancia. For he was conceived with the "intention to intervene in the street." Do not think so in the case of state security bodies. He says that the congregation Chuspa rasta at first was "suppressed by the National Guard (GN). And it has not been very different in the city. The National Guard has behaved very badly with this kind of cultural expressions, "he said.