Natália Galvão Azevedo Silva

This project aims to investigate blues as an aesthetic, epistemic, and political practice of racial self-determination, grounded in the central role of music within the modern Black diasporic experience. It constitutes a direct continuation of the research developed during the master’s program, which explored the formation of the Afro-diasporic subject through the structures of Western modernity and examined possible pathways for its subjective reconfiguration. In this work, the proposal is to deepen that discussion by approaching music as a radical form of existence, with blues positioned as the central object—not as a mere cultural expression, but as embodied epistemology, a sensitive archive of Black experience, and a form of knowledge produced outside the frameworks of Eurocentric rationality.