Afro-colombian musicality: living pictures and women who reignify knowledge and experiences IMAGENS VIVAS E MULHERES QUE RESIGNIFICAM SABERES E EXPERIÊNCIAS
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The article addresses the study of Afrodiasporic musical practice and the importance of women in bullerengue, one of the cantao dances of the Colombian Caribbean. Afrodiasporic musicalities, artistic-cultural expressions and ways of life have been marginalized, denied and commercialized by colonization, whitening and Judeo-Christian beliefs. The theoretical currents follow the studies of Afro-Latin American and Caribbean music, understood as constitutive of black identity and culture, and account for the musical structures of the African diaspora and Afro-Colombian culture. The methodology is based on documentary review. The analysis is articulated around the axes of interpretation: Afro-Colombian musical tradition; music and resignification; women, corporeality and performance.
This research is critical of the historical rejection of Afro-descendant ancestry. And it invites the social sciences and social-community psychologies to accompany, listen to and dialogue with black communities from music, knowledge and traditions that mobilize processes of resignification. Likewise, we call for an approach to Afro-Colombian musicality as a field of study interested in critical reflections, based on African cosmologies and decolonial positions of knowledge/power.
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