THE MUSICAL INFORMATION CONSTRUCTING THE AFRICAN DESCENT IDENTITY: FUNK AS A CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHENOMENON AND ITS CRIMINALIZATION
Funk; Musical Information; Afrodescendant; Librarianship.
The Funk is a musical, cultural, political and social movement, coming from the favelas
of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The phenomenon brings in its context cultural practices
produced mainly by the poor and black population, as it was born and developed in Rio
de Janeiro communities, addressing the poverty and violence experienced by that
people. The present investigation discusses not only the socio-legal problems of Funk
and its criminalization, but, above all, the conceptual and epistemological aspects of
information related to the funkeiro movement, in order to clarify that the musical
information present in Funk is a fruit and, at the same time, an instrument that promotes
the construction of the Afro-descendant collective identity. The problem consists of the
following question: What is the contribution of Funk as a social, political and cultural
movement in opposition to the attempted criminalization in the context of the critical
role of contemporary Library Science? The hypothesis presented elucidates that Funk
contributes as a manifestation emanating from the people of a social, political and
cultural order, since its birthplace of popular nature includes collective experiences. The
claim for its illegality is linked to racism with the black population, above all, slums. In
this context, Librarianship can play a role of excellence when mediating information
present in Funk and disseminated to the population. The project's general objective is to
discuss the process of collective construction of Afro-descendant identity based on the
musical information present in Funk. While the specific objectives are to identify,
through a historical, sociological and comparative approach that Funk is an artistic and
cultural movement, as well as to understand the motivation of society and the Public
Power to criminalize Funk. The methodology is exploratory, descriptive and
bibliographic, using dialectical, historical and comparative methods. There was a data
collection with the digital platform KondZilla, the largest peripheral music channel on
YouTube, whose quantitative cut is the video clips published with more than 270
million views, a survey that was updated until April 15, 2020, being 20 records were
retrieved and will be verified by the content analysis method. The final product will be
the making of a booklet, entitled: ‘Funk, educate or criminalize?’. It will work on the
perspectives of music narrated with an educational character, elucidating important
points of the research.