“Palavra Preta”, “Som das Binha” e “Sonora” – espaces for mobilization and strenghtening for musical production by women in Salvador
Artivism, Female Composers, Music andGender, Intersectional Feminism.
From the need to investigate the collective production ofwomen within the musical field, based on feministepistemologies, it is intended to analyze how initiativessuch as "Palavra Preta: Mostra de autoras negras" (freely translated as "Black Word: Black Artist Show"), "Som das Binha" and "Sonora - Encontro Internacional de Compositoras (freely translated as "Sonora - International Encounter of Composers") are constitutedas spaces of mobilization and strengthening of a femalemusical scene silenced by the social structures ofoppression. For that, photographic and audiovisual records were made, as well as field notes and interviews with artists who presented themselves at the mentionedevents. And so, from a reflection that starts from feministreadings, feminist ethnomusicology, these actions are understood as a strategy of feedback and creation of a network of sharing and knowledge in which thecomposers are constituted as a political place of power. Bringing the mobilizations to the center of reflection, as a collective practice, gives us the opportunity to think howself-management is an important instrument of a poetic-sound production, which seeks an alternative proposalfor the invisibility and the silencing of women as creators. Demystifying the myth of women as competitors and in constant dispute and how to show musicality as an artivist practice and as a place ofspeech and political action. This theme is of greatrelevance, because there is an abyss that separates themusicians from the role of composers, because womenare hardly thought of as people who create.