O novo tempo do Afrobeat: expressões musicais e identidades negras

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Ano de defesa: 2018
Autor(a) principal: Amaral, Raphael Fernando lattes
Orientador(a): Azevedo, Amailton Magno
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História
Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
País: Brasil
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Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21316
Resumo: The present research aims to understande the influences of afrobeat, nigerian musical style, and its main creator, the musician Fela Kuti, concerning emergente musical productions in the urban context at contemporary Brazil. The central scope of the research consists on how musicians and activists have taken the afrobeat as a stylistic and aesthetic reference. Through the analysis of phonographic production and cultural activities it’s noticed that the afrobeat music bacame a new basis for identity and musical dialogue. It explores also the political clashes around the incorporation of afrobeat into different social and ethnic extracts. It is also emphasized that through this style, a new black and young affirmation has been made in the context of the metropolis’ peripheries in Brazil. Inserted in the Cultural Studies, this investigation’s relevance stems from the fact that, with the afrobeat, it is possible to understand certain facets about how occur the cultural movements, identity reconfigurations and a new formations of subjectivities between Africa and America by the routes of the black diaspora