Have some respect for my hair, whites: music, politics and black identity
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Popular music, black identity, Chico CésarAbstract
Popular music is a media artifact through which thoughts, values, actions and collective and individual strategies of identity can be socially negotiated. In this article, we’ll analyze the discursive nuances in the song Respeitem meus cabelos, brancos (Have some respect for my hair, whites), by Chico César. We start of from the assumption that behind a militant and accusatory discourse, ambiguities are showed in the author’s stand on black identity. Current debates on racism trigger a dichotomous position (blacks vs. whites), in the lyrics, second guessed by the irony in the unorthodox usage of reggae, by the ambiguity of the record cover image, by the undefined tone and the creative use of the comma, that condenses a range of interpretational misplaces, contributing largely and critically for the current thought on blackness in Brazil.Downloads
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