Rachel Reis' decolonial performance on the album Meu Esquema and Salvador's Afro-Latin music scene

Abstract

In this article we present the first results of an investigation that seeks to think about musical practices set in decolonial territorialities, from an intersectional perspective. Taking the visual album Meu Esquema by Rachel Reis as our research subject, we propose the articulation of the notion of musical scene based on a connection with concepts such as Performance, Afrocentricity, Decolonial Feminism and Ancestry, in order to understand urban cultural phenomena anchored in performances of gender, post-gender, race/ethnicity, sexualities, citizenship and class, which materialize in Latin American cities. To this end, we propose the concept of an Afro-Latin/diasporic music scene, which we feel is more appropriate for understanding cultural processes in places marked by colonial oppression and ethnic-racial violence.