"YOUTH, MUSIC AND POLITICS" (Flying Circus: Rebuilding social structure through music in Mexico City)

Music tells us through lifetime how societies are in a specific times and spaces. It is shout, denounce, identity, culture, union; it is youth and revolt. Each generation has its own music, which expresses the vision of its city, its country, and the world. Also, each urban tribe or young musical group has their own music, which gives them identity markers and cohesion. This article will undertake a case study where applied social research through music has been proven useful to break social borders and to empower the youngest people with limited resources in the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City. Being offered a learning space, and opportunities of professionalization and self-expression young displaced may coexist with young people with better opportunities, thus affecting the reconstruction of the social network.