A estética do Funk: articulações entre vestuário e território

Abstract

This final project in Geography aims to analyze the concepts of fashion, identity and territoriality with the aim of introducing the so-called Aesthetics of Funk in the current context of globalization, understanding how the fashion expressed by this culture can represent a form of territorial resistance. Therefore, the work initially discusses the history of Brazilian funk, from its origin as a culture imported from the United States to its consolidation as a national culture, endowed with ways of life, symbologies, slang and others. After that, the work discusses the conceptualization of identity according to Stuart Hall's precepts, understanding that the manifestations of identity through clothing in the current historical period must reflect the particularities of the postmodern, that is, increasingly fragmented subjects. Thus, thinking about the question of the expression of the identity of the subjects participating in funk culture, the work discusses the Aesthetics of Funk, understanding it as a production of the Brazilian outskirts that, in addition to being fashionable, is also struggle and resistance. To this end, the work included a bibliographic review of its main concepts in order to provide a joint and reflective analysis of previously produced knowledge, articulating the issues of fashion, identity and territoriality. Finally, it concludes that the Aesthetics of Funk represents much more than the daily lives of residents of the outskirts who actively participate in the construction of this culture, but is also loaded with meanings, which are not passed on globally when this style becomes a trend on the internet.