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memory and resistance in black musical production

Abstract

The present study seeks to investigate how black Brazilian music mobilizes experiences of political resistance, an aspect intrinsically related to the process of (re)memory and narrative. For him, memory is understood as a subjective movement of invocation of the past, a bell of social production based on the demands of the present. The investigation was elaborated in a cartographic perspective, carried out during a year of field work in Porto Alegre in quilombola territories and the active search for musical and cultural records derived from the city route. It was possible to list as key points of the investigation how the whitening logic historically structured in Brazil produces, for black populations, a lack of self-knowledge, an element that denotes the value of the production of memory as political resistance; the importance of the relationship between the occupation of urban territories and black music production, is to be decided, in the (re)creation of spaces of cultural belonging, dialogic encounters and, finally, the importance of black music memory as a subjective marginal formation, power of belonging and counter-normative social identification.