B-girls and funkeiras: intersections and identities of women in hip hop and funk

• Grant number: 14/07102-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: May 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Heloisa Buarque de Almeida
• Grantee: Izabela Nalio Ramos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this research, hip hop and funk, juvenile cultural manifestations considered characteristics of large Brazilian cities' peripheries, will be addressed from the perspective of social markers of difference, and the interrelationship of the categories of gender, sexuality, class and race will be analyzed in the construction of funkeiras and B-girls' identities, women representatives of these cultural expressions. In an earlier research conducted with women in hip hop, the definition of meanings of race and ethnicity was observed, articulated with categories of gender and sexuality, and the negotiation of the identity boundary between hip hop and funk. With themes such as eroticism and an alleged objectification of women in funk, such a boundary made itself present in the debate and in the artistic creation among B-girls. Thus, under the concept of intersectionality among social categories that mark the social difference, we will further the analysis of how these markers are articulated by B-girls, and extend the observation to how these categories are also articulated by funkeiras. From the comparative study of how these categories operate in both juvenile manifestations, the intent is to comprehend how they articulate themselves marking differences and similarities, constructing identities and delimiting boundaries between the two groups. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

RAMOS, Izabela Nalio. Between perifeminas and minas de artilharia: participation and identities of women in hip hop and funk scenes. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.