Subgrave Nordestino : uma faceta contra colonial da música eletrônica brasileira : interações entre música eletrônica e culturas populares e tradicionais

Abstract

This research aims to assert as a counter-colonial proposition in the field of contemporary musical production a branch of Brazilian electronic music referred here as Subgrave Nordestino. Fruit of the interaction between music from traditional and popular cultures and the production of artists from the electronic music scene in the northeast region of Brazil, Subgrave Nordestino is revealed in this research through musical production experiences in communities that maintain musical traditions related to the country’s black and indigenous cultures. These field actions were inspired mainly by the Participatory Action Research proposed by Orlando Fals Borda and subsidized the production of concepts such as Musical Attitude, formulated based on the insufficiency of the idea of musical genre in the classification and analysis of Subgrave Nordestino. Conceived and created based on unexpected movements by the cultural agents involved in its production, Subgrave Nordestino has consolidated itself as a counter-colonial Musical Attitude, since its materialization often goes against the way the recording industry conducts musical production in the country and worldwide. Thus, from listening to the cultural agents involved and, above all, the actions or circumstances of musical production proposed by the research itself, data and concepts were produced and analyzed based on the establishment of interpersonal relationships, as well as original categorizations that emerged in the context of the research itself, a movement that reiterates the transformative and counter-colonial potential of this music that has been produced in the Brazilian northeast.