African Music and African Music Practices in Music Licentiateships in Bahia
Degree in music; musical education; ethnomusicology; African music.
Based on the Curriculum Matrices, Pedagogical Course Projects (PPCs), course menus
and interviews with teachers and students of the Bachelor of Music courses at
Universities in Bahia, the present work intends to talk about the importance and
possible meanings of the presences and absence of African music in these spaces, both
as musical repertoires, as well as aesthetic-philosophical and didactic-methodological
proposals. Through a critical approach to hegemonic relations in academic music, we
try to point out the tensions between conservatory habitus, cultural diversity, ethnic-
racial relations, decolonization of musicological thought and practices related to musical
formation, and how these vectors are articulated in the construction and (re)
construction of curricula and educational practices for degrees in Music in Bahia. The
research approach starts from a reflection through dialogues with the fields of
anthropology, sociology, oral history, cultural studies, philosophy and ethnomusicology,
which in addition to critically analyzing the Eurocentric universalisms underlying
Brazilian music education, points out conceptual tools from musical practices Africans,
Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Americans and Amerindians, thus helping to understand the
educational processes and choices from the musical point of view of music degrees in
Bahia.