GPEMUDA Papo Reto #1: Musicalidades africanas e afrodiaspóricas

GPEMUDA Papo Reto #1: African and Afrodiasporic Musicalities is the first volume of a book series produced by the Research Group on African and Afrodiasporic Musicalities (GPEMUDA), founded in 2021 in Rio de Janeiro. The volume brings together research developed within the group, systematizing debates that have emerged from collective study, academic research, and cultural engagement. Through an interdisciplinary perspective, the chapters explore African and Afrodiasporic musical practices as spaces of memory, identity construction, and cultural resistance, particularly within the urban context of Rio de Janeiro. The contributions examine themes such as suburban dance parties, funk and charme musicalities, carnival traditions, gender dynamics in cultural spaces, oral histories, and public policy related to racial relations. Drawing on ethnography, historical analysis, and interviews with cultural actors, the volume highlights how musical practices operate as technologies of community organization, aesthetic creation, and political expression within the African diaspora. By centering the experiences and knowledge produced within Black communities, the book proposes a critical and socially engaged approach to the study of music and culture