Potentialities of an Afrodiasporic knowledge: reflections form Reggae

• Autor(a) principal: Hinkel, Jaison
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Maheirie, Kátia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: INTERthesis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/90233
• topic: Music; Reggae; Decolonization of thought; African diaspora; Música; Reggae; Descolonização do pensamento; Diáspora africana

This paper introduces a theoretical essay that discusses reggae as an Afrodiasporic knowledge that can contribute to a decolonization of thought. To develop our reflections, we analyze historical elements of reggae's constitution and development process. We have come to the conclusion that reggae proposes responses to coloniality that aim at the recognition and credibility of community knowledge rooted in African ancestry. One of the main decolonial potentialities of reggae is in its configuration as an everyday knowledge that preserves the street as a reference not only for artistic expression, but also for entertainment, sociability, ethnic belonging, and political action. Reggae, in this sense, presents a doubly decolonial action, as it configures the production of a knowledge linked to daily life that is produced by bodies that were subalternized by the colonial project.