Batida and the politics of sonic agency in Afro-Lisboa

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ID2149443
AuthorsOtávio Raposo (0000-0001-8000-6901, Department of Social Research Methods, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Lisbon, Portugal, corresponding author), C Garrido Castellano (0000-0002-3979-9193, University College Cork)
Year2024
Volume47
Issue7
Pages1438-1455
Publication date2024-05-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2023.2289154
OpenAlexW4389731892
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

This article examines the politics of sonic agency in batida, the most successful recent electronic musical style emerging from Lisbon's outskirts in Portugal. The genealogies of batida are closely linked to the emergence of a young generation of Djs do Gueto [Ghetto Djs] who unabashedly claim their right of belonging as major players within the Portuguese acoustic and cultural fields. We analyse batida as a space for agency and affirmative mobilisation of Afro-Portuguese populations. Two elements are of special interest: the digital recombination to celebrate the irreducibility of Afro-Portuguese experience, and the way in which racial exclusion, urban segregation, and racism are problematised through the act of inscribing the neighbouring sounds of peripheral neighbourhoods in their music. Through the examination of these two elements, we aim to position sonic agency as a central space in the configuration of racial politics and processes of nation building in the Portuguese case

Agency (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Urban and sociocultural dynamics

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