Blues e emancipação em Angela Davis

Abstract

Angela Davis's critical thinking is an important source for the uses of freedom and the comprehension of the limits. Even today, the freedom issue faces great precedents in philosophy. The main purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the blues and emancipation through Angela Davis, in an attempt to provide a reading that incorporates philosophical thinking, the use of music in the conception of the concept, and the practice of freedom. Proposing to connect to political and cultural dimensions, in the work Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, Davis develops a study that aims to analyze the trajectory of classic blues singers as contributors to the struggle for the emancipation of black people. Then, to delve into the proposed object and understand the analyses developed by Angela Davis regarding the blues and emancipation, the dissertation will be divided into three chapters: the first, dedicated to discussing the general relationship between art and politics; the second, to analyze the question of emancipation; and the last, to examine the blues in the philosopher's thoughts. At the end of this work, it aims to elucidate the hypothesis that the blues are related to emancipation by catalyzing the emancipatory process, through the creation of an autonomous sexual, creative, and conscious subjectivity of the collective struggle and the important role of black women, or better yet, which denies the imposed sensitivity by the slavery and dominant capitalist group. From the blues, a new consciousness is formed, and radical emancipation becomes a real possibility. Thus, it is a vision that sees music as a possibility of creating new subjects, who will be able to promote a conscious and collective denial of the established reality.