The dissident bodies of decolonial scenes in bregafunk: contestations of racialized and cisnormative representations of control images
bregafunk; intersectionality; control images; transcoding strategies; body-sound.
The present text develops an analysis of the intersections around strategies of contestation of control images that operate in the construction of gender, race, class, and sexuality in music videos featuring artists from the "bregafunk" scene, such as Danny Bond, Rayssa Dias, and Gyldo. From the understanding of these tactics of re-signification of dissident bodies and corporealities, the aim is to comprehend how they challenge a racialized and cisnormative regime of representation of black, transgender, lesbian, and effeminate queer bodies that dwell within the colonial difference from a fractured perspective. Thus, as a thesis proposal, representation technologies — including music and the body — act to subvert identity regimes. Furthermore, it considers the visibility of these artists on platforms like Spotify and YouTube and how algorithms do or do not resonate with the oppressions these bodies already face offline. At the core of the analysis, in recognizing the corporeal inscriptions present in the music videos, this work identifies strategies of transcoding — inverting stereotypes, positive images, internal perspectives, and enunciative positions — with the intention of contributing to the epistemological understanding of how these performances challenge the logics that operate on bodies and ways of being beyond regimes of oppression.