Vozes silenciadas: ensaio musicológico sobre o samba carioca no começo do século XX sob uma perspectiva africanista

Abstract

This work discusses the process of the emergence of samba and its penetration in the newborn Brazilian phonographic market at the beginning of the 20th century, with a view to Africanist perspective. Looking to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue between studies sociocultural and musicology, we analyze this popular manifestation both in its sound and poetic characteristics, as well as historical, social and cultural. Here, the person and the black musicality sets the tone of our plot, from scattered cultural goods that are (re) arranged under an Africanist conception of the pieces that will compose this social board Brazilian. Through Afro-Brazilian cultural concepts and practices, which, although silenced, forced barriers and found space to counter the cruelties of the State (or rather, Brazilian ruling class) perpetrated on the black people. Samba, in these circumstances, will represent a set of aesthetic standards and social practices that are merge, strategically, with the daily life of Rio. Its music establishes dimensions that allow the black people to reorganize themselves socially, forcing us to move in this shifting territory in search of new interpretations and approaches to unravel it.