ITAMARACÁ – SUN OF JAMAICA: SCRIPTS OF COLONIALITY IN MUSIC BREGA BY REGINALDO ROSSI
Brega music; Reginaldo Rossi; Itineraries; Coloniality; Brazilian Northeast.
The present work is an essay that intends to analyze the coloniality
itineraries that cross the Brega music of the Pernambuco artist Reginaldo
Rossi. For this, the concept of the script according to Diana Taylor and the
idea of coloniality according to the researcher Aníbal Quijano is used, starting from the analysis of the songs Férias em Itamaracá (1987), Itamaracá – Sun of Jamaica (1985), Recife (1980) and Recife, Minha Cidade (1984) and the understanding of Brega music in Pernambuco as a musical genre that is related to specific territoriality. Following the authors’ ideas linked to decolonial studies such as Antonio Benítez-Rojo and Denise Ferreira da Silva, it is understood that Brega music in Pernambuco is part of a continental context and repeats, in the territory of Pernambuco, structural dynamics of the colonial formation of the Americas. From the analysis of the songs, we seek to investigate how these dynamics are presented in the context of Pernambuco and permeate both the themes of Reginaldo Rossi and the debate that took place in 2017 on the site of Brega music in public cultural policies in the State of Pernambuco. Supporting the perspective of Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. on the construction of northeastern regionalism, we start from the hypothesis that these public policies bring an epistemology of thinking about culture that has its origins in authors such as Gilberto Freyre and the construction of the idea of Brazilian Northeast.