Corpo, gênero e colonialidade: fabulações travesti sobre existir a partir dos projetos musicais de Linn da Quebrada (2017-2021)

Abstract

The singer and actress Lina Pereira, known as Linn da Quebrada, released between 2017 and 2021 the music videos blasFêmea and Oração, as well as the albums Pajubá and Trava Línguas. This study aims to examine how the artist expresses, through her audiovisual and musical productions, her process of subjectivation as a travesti body. The research is guided by the following questions: What do the desires Linn sings about reveal about her individual and collective experience? How does the artist articulate verbal and musical language in her productions in relation to her narrative? How do these productions engage with the context of tension between progressive and conservative agendas? How does the incorporation of religiosity as a narrative arc contribute to the artist’s musical performance? Therefore, poetic-verbal and musical parameters are examined in order to identify the uses of language in these works. Drawing on decolonial perspectives and queer studies, the study articulates themes of gender, sexuality, travestility, and the use of music as a means of expression