(In)versos entre músicas, corpos e periferias

Abstract

Would be possible for an “amateur” who doesn’t know the formal studies involving music theory and practice to make it an object and method of research? Even more, would be possible to observe cities through music? If the answer is yes, how to do this? Looking for the answers to such questions, I dove into the universe of local rap, in order to reflect about another Maceió. For that, I chose an experimental method that, through the exploration of walking, listening, memories and digital media, unfolded in small cartographies. From these processes, the research is presented in two parts that tried to reflect and tell stories about the peripheries, but not only about them, as the margin and the center of any city are not disconnected. The first part approaches the city through spaces and the universe of sounds; the second paste to the body that sings, composes, makes rhymes, inhabits the city and survives. Through this, presents itself producing, in gestures and clothes, the city itself.