A Bluesman's Beards: A Sign of Black Resistance in Bahian Rap

Authors

Keywords:

Act of creation, Baco Exu do Blues, Necropolitics, Ideological sign

Abstract

Beards are an indication that man has reached maturity. It is with this idea in mind that the songs from the second album by artist Baco Exu do Blues, Bluesman, are analyzed. At the early age of 22, in his act of creation, Baco criticized the conditions of socioeconomic inequality and racism imposed on people of African descent, acting as an ideological sign in the construction of a Black Consciousness. As a symbol of insurgency, Baco also used mythical language to compose an identity and format his rap, creating a hero. Hip hop criticizes racial capitalism, established in Brazil with the colonization and the arrival of enslaved Africans. The compositions are analyzed as cries of resistance to necropolitics – a call to perform acts that relate ethical values and poetry when doing politcs.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Camilla Ramos dos Santos, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz – UESC/BA

Departamento de Letras e Artes, Doutoranda em Letras: Linguagens e Representações. Bacharela em Comunicação Social - Rádio e Tv (2009) e Mestra em Letras: Linguagens e Representações (2016), pela Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz. Desenvolve pesquisas em História e Cultura Afro-brasileira e Análise de Discurso, com ênfase em "representações sociais". 

Marlúcia Mendes da Rocha, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz – UESC/BA

Doutora em Comunicação e Semiótica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP. Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras: Linguagens e Representações, Departamento de Letras e Artes.

Isaias Francisco de Carvalho, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz – UESC/BA

Doutor em Teorias e Crítica da Literatura e da Cultura pela Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA. Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras: Linguagens e Representações, Departamento de Letras e Artes.

Downloads

Published

2021-09-22

How to Cite

dos Santos, C. R., da Rocha, M. M., & de Carvalho, I. F. (2021). A Bluesman’s Beards: A Sign of Black Resistance in Bahian Rap. Bakhtiniana. Revista De Estudos Do Discurso, 16(3), Port. 56–80 / Eng. 57. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/49817

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2021)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso ISSN 2176-4573

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The authors grant the journal all copyrights relating to the work published. The concepts expressed in signed articles are absolute and exclusive responsibility of their authors.