Funk, Trap and Kuduro - Afro-diasporic musicking and locality

• Grant number: 24/16757-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: March 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Suzel Ana Reily
• Grantee: Paulo Menotti Del Picchia
• Supervisor: Salwa El-Shawan El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 23/10671-1 - Heavy beat and key hair cut - funk, trap and the construction of masculinities, BP.PD

Abstract

This international research exchange project is an integral part of the post-doctoral project "Beat Heavy beat and Key cut - funk, trap and construction of masculinities", funded by FAPESP (Process No. 2023/10671-1). The original objective of the project is to carry out a musical ethnography of an independent funk and trap record label called Helipa Records, where a barbershop also operates. The research is based on concepts and methodologies from ethnomusicology and anthropology to problematize artistic expressions typical of peripheral youth in large Brazilian cities such as São Paulo. For the international internship, the proposal is to expand the field research to an investigation of the kuduro musical genre in the Lisbon music scene. Kuduro, created in Angola in the 1990s, today occupies a social and cultural place similar to that of Brazilian funk as a genre for populations that inhabit peripheral areas of the two cities - São Paulo and Lisbon. Among the main objectives, it is worth highlighting the following: 1) Outlining the central socio-technical aspects that characterize what I call "studio musicking"; 2) Investigate how contemporary musickings from recording studios manage notions of locality, local identities and bodily aesthetics based on the cases of Brazilian funk in São Paulo and kuduro in Lisbon; 3)Describe creative practices of Brazilian funk and kuduro artists with special attention to the technologies used and the way in which they are used.