Música por surdos: uma análise da recepção de música por Tradutores Intérpretes Surdos da Esfera Artística (TISEAs)

Abstract

Music is a part of the daily lives of multiple communities in many forms. Aiming to uphold the right to access culture and entertainment, Brazilian legislation provides for actions to ensure this right for deaf signers, such as the professional activity of translators and interpreters in a variety of contexts. The presence of these professionals has drawn attention from both deaf and hearing individuals across the country since the widely viewed musical livestreams during the disheartening pandemic years. As a matter of fact, deaf professionals on these teams have increasingly taken the stage at concerts following the return of public cultural events. Recent research on music translation highlights this growing movement of deaf interpreters claiming these spaces and experiencing musicality in their own ways. Seeking to broaden the discussion on how these communities experience this melodic form of art, this exploratory qualitative study aimed to reflect on the personal and professional musical experiences of deaf artistic translators/interpreters. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with three participants and analyzed in dialogue with concepts from Sign Language Translation and Interpretation Studies and the historical-cultural perspective. The results suggest an understanding of musical experience as a complex form of poetic mediation of meaning, constructed collectively and transcending simplistic interpretations of human interaction through the normality and disability bias.