African musicians in Brazil and their online music making

• Grant number: 21/12576-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2021
• End date: July 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
• Grantee: Giovana Milano Pianca
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB). 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 research proposes an investigation in an atypical context for the world: the COVID-19 pandemic. The new reality brought by this event has caused several changes in the daily lives of people around the world since 2020 when social distancing was established in order to contain the transmission of the new disease. Many adaptations were considered remarkable in this new context, such as the migration of the music-making of many artists to the virtual environment. This study will seek to understand what were and how to have these adaptations been happening in the case of the interlocutors studied here: immigrants from Africa than in Brazil developed their careers in music and are musicians in activities that continue to perform, despite the new circumstances. (AU)