Brasilândia is not Disneyland
Negra Li, fable and hyper-reality
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2525-7757.2021.v7.33608Keywords:
Brazilian rap, late modernity, favelas, Brazilian audiovisualAbstract
The article engages in a reflection of Milton Santos’ “fable” (2001) and Jean Baudrillard’s “hyper-reality” (1991) – concepts interested in losses and hegemonies –, in order to analyze two songs written and performed by Brazilian rapper Negra Li: “Olha o menino” (2004) and “Brasilândia” (2019), as well as the latter’s music video. The first-person, creative voice of a black woman about the periphery in which she was brought up is a much-needed examination of models of social ascension and authenticity experienced in the late modernity. The article proposes that, by crossing more than a decade, the assertive verse “Brasilândia is not Disneyland” is a powerful tool to, first, critique the national, audiovisual representations of favelas, and second, to understand a world based on mere reality simulations.
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