A África em Emicida : divulgação científica dos conceitos de mensagem e informação a partir do paradigma teórico de Rafael Capurro

Abstract

This article presents the results of research relating to the analysis of the representation of Africa in Rapper Emicida's discography, focusing on the importance of the message and information transmitted by his lyrics, having as its object the history of Africa from the perspective of Rapper Emicida's music. The starting point is the following research question: What are the messages conveyed by Rap Emicida's songs about the African continent? And what type of information do they provide? The general objective is to analyze, in the production of Rapper Emicida, based on the binomial message/information, the references about the African continent, interpreting them in the light of Rafael Capurro's information theory. And specifically, a) discuss the message/information relationship based on the “angeletics” paradigm disseminated by Rafael Capurro; b) present a brief overview of Rapper Emicida and his trajectory in Brazilian music; c) examine, based on the message/information binomial, the musical production of Rapper Emicida, highlighting references to the African continent in his work. It has a qualitative approach to the object and is applied and based on the case study as a method. This is a qualitative approach, carried out based on the case study. And as a result, it was found that the message communicated by Emicida assumes different uses of language, adapts to different universes of the social order and has a striking intentionality that is processed through facts and myths.