Archive | 2021
O que significa descategorizar o gênero musical
Abstract
This paper aims at discussing the decategorization of music genres as a sensitive alternative do Eurocentric thought still present in Brazilian research on media and music. To do so, we move away from a homogenizing and historically constructed cultural position that privileges certain forms of knowledge to detriment of others. Through the lens of decolonial theory, I seek to highlight how the music genre functions as a form of Eurocentric thought. Inspired by American Jazz Legends in their defense of “decategorization of music”, I question: What does it mean to decategorize the musical genre?