Palavra preta”, “som das binha” e “sonora”: espaços de mobilização e fortalecimento da produção musical de mulheres de Salvador

Abstract

From the need to investigate the collective production of women within the musical field, based on feminist epistemologies, it is intended to analyze how initiatives such as "Palavra Preta: Mostra de autoras negras" (freely translated as "Black Word: Black Artist Show"), "Som das Binha" and "Sonora - Encontro Internacional de Compositoras (freely translated as "Sonora - International Encounter of Composers") are constituted as spaces of mobilization and strengthening of a female musical scene silenced by the social structures of oppression. For that, photographic and audiovisual records were made, as well as field notes and interviews with artists who presented themselves at the mentioned events. And so, from a reflection that starts from feminist readings, feminist ethnomusicology, these actions are understood as a strategy of feedback and creation of a network of sharing and knowledge in which the composers are constituted as a political place of power. Bringing the mobilizations to the center of reflection, as a collective practice, gives us the opportunity to think how self-management is an important instrument of a poetic-sound production, which seeks an alternative proposal for the invisibility and the silencing of women as creators. Demystifying the myth of women as competitors and in constant dispute and how to show musicality as an artivist practice and as a place of speech and political action. This theme is of great relevance, because there is an abyss that separates the musicians from the role of composers, because women are hardly thought of as people who create.