A produção do saber (etno)musicológico e a questão da significação musical diante de suas determinações

Abstract

This paper takes Boaventura de Souza Santos‟s analysis of abyssal thinking and his consideration of the distinctions drawn by that thought through its manifestations as a point of departure in order to reveal the importance of other knowledge situated beyond the invisible borders that established distinctions between metropolitan and colonial realities. Bringing the reflection on the knowledge produced by abyssal thinking to the field of (ethno)musicology, one seek, from a South-South dialogue with the Indian Marxist theorist Aijaz Ahmad and the incorporation of contributions from the social sciences and sciences of language (semiotics and semiology), to face the questions of musical signification and of the determination of the theories of knowledge, situating both in the context in which they have been produced. Thus, one intends to demonstrate the importance of a politically engaged musicological knowledge, able to move beyond naturalized views of socially built phenomena and to overcome the conformism and major apathy in our days.