Gypsy parties: an ethnography about music and belonging

• Grant number: 20/00200-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2020
• End date: January 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
• Grantee: Isabella Almeida de Abreu Aquino
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/05318-7 - Local musicking: new pathways for ethnomusicology, AP.TEM

Abstract

This proposal focuses on the so-called "themed Gypsy Parties" of São Paulo, in which different ethnicities gathered around an essentially musical event participate. The main aim will be on how they relate to each other and build a locality through music king and nonverbal manifestations of affection and connection, such as dance, non-roma and roma attending these ceremonies. Artists and companies form a cultural mosaic between performances by Ghawazee, Kalbelia, Flamenco, Ruska Roma, among other dances placed in the "gypsy" category. Also, bands play live and people everywhere meet to sing and dance. I seek to understand how the processes of belonging and identity in the contact of actors are built with music and corporeality as the engine. (AU)