Tupã: Brô MC’s indigenous rap as micropolitical performance

Abstract

This text addresses a performance with musical practices by the indigenous rap group Brô MC's, together with the Ueze Zahran Indigenous Children's Orchestra, held in 2019 at the closing of the XXIV Congress of the Brazilian Association of Musical Education. Through autoethnographic approaches, the text discusses and conceives this performance as micropolitics, according to the concepts of Suely Rolnik (2019), proposing the need for a conscious presence in such practices. It emphasizes the ideas of performance as approached by Schechner and Turner (2006) and adopts Christopher Small's (1999) conception of musicking to expand the performance ideas commonly adopted by the music field, which are related to the act of singing or playing a musical instrument. It also suggests the conceptions of listening to the world, in allusion to the ideas of readings and pronunciations of the world by Paulo Freire (2019), associating it with the concepts of micropolitics. It proposes, therefore, to participate in anti-racist debates from the academic universe, hegemonically identified as white.