CULTURA POPULAR NEGRA: DECOLONIALIDADE NO RAP E EM PRODUÇÕES AUDIOVISUAIS

Abstract

The objective of this article is to identify the decolonial discourse in pop culture through rap in addition to series and movies whose approach involves racial themes. Understanding the historical processes as a field of disputes and repositioning movements, we search in the productions of “black popular culture” the elements that identify the concrete experiences of black women and men, in order to understand how the dislocations of power structures happen through cultural practices. As method, we used the speech analysis to discuss the rap lyrics of three different artists: the rappers BK’, Emicida and Kendrick Lamar; as well as audiovisual productions directed and starred by black people: the movie Black Panther and the series Atlanta and Insecure. The ideas of modernity, race, language and decolonization are worked based on the considerations of Paul Gilroy (2001), Stuart Hall (2003), Achille Mbembe (2018), Frantz Fanon (2008) and Grada Kilomba (2019), among other authors. Using the criticism of coloniality and the “cultural studies”, we understand the art as a narrative of the experience of the black people, that brings the historicity of subjects made invisible by hegemonic narratives and recognizes their potentialities, languages, corporealities, aesthetics and expressiveness, mainly through culture. As a result, we conclude that racializing daily questions and bringing them into cultural production is fundamental, since artistic practices reflect the racial relations of their time and seek to connect with people who go through the same situations, creating a network of identity constructions in around that culture.