The erotic grammars of Cape Verdean Batuko

Batuko, a music-choreographic genre from Cape Verde, an African country, has been recreated as a markedly feminine space, although there is some male presence. Aiming to think how it can aggregate different ways of seeing the world, particularly of women drummers, through the different ways of build...

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Author: Semedo, Carla Indira
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repository:Hawò
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/65617
Online Access:https://revistas.ufg.br/hawo/article/view/65617
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Batuko
Ku Torno
Desejos
Cabo Verde
Desires
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Summary:Batuko, a music-choreographic genre from Cape Verde, an African country, has been recreated as a markedly feminine space, although there is some male presence. Aiming to think how it can aggregate different ways of seeing the world, particularly of women drummers, through the different ways of building bodies and desires, I propose an association between the erotic grammar of Batuko and the concept Deleuze-Guattari “desiring machines”. The aesthetic notions of giving Ku Torno, the notions of desire and of eroticism triggered by the Kutornadeiras women, at some point, subvert and destabilize the Cape Verdean micropolitical spaces of the subjects.