Ressoar a antropologia: uma jam session com Steven Feld

(Auto) Ethnographic notes about DIY ethos in lofi hip hop

“…Likewise, I do not understand lofi hip hop as a branch of Hip-hop or Lo-fi, or something like "Lofizization" of Hip-Hop or "Hip-Hopzization" of Lo-Fi, because I do not identify one expressive form above the other, and I don't support the idea that there is a unique and pure Lo-Fi and/or unique and pure Hip-Hop. Based on Feld's (2017;Feld et al, 2020) concept of sounding, 3 I define lofi hip hop as an autonomous sound expressive form but based on mixing, that is, I characterize it as the relationship between persons in cyberspace with two distinct and complex artistic traditions, Lo-Fi and Hip-Hop. August 11, 1973, was the symbolic date chosen for the birth of Hip-Hop.…”

“…For the author, Lo-Fi would be the noise, the sound pollution, symbolically associated with the city, while Hi-Fi would represent the sound cleanliness, symbolically represented by life in nature/countryside. However, Feld (2012;Feld et al, 2020) questions such polarization, since the natural scenarios of the tropical forests of Papua New Guinea fit into a Lo-Fi sound spectrum, but with no such urban problems to understand that Lo-Fi scenario. Such reflections are important to understand the history of Lo-Fi terminology and its presence in sound studies, from a musicological, cultural, and social perspective.…”

“…3. For Feld (2017;Feld et al, 2020), sounding is a way to understand sound phenomena from its relationality with the environment, it would be "a way of thinking and perceiving sound in two simultaneous dimensions: acoustic and temporal" which "thus implies a continuous state of producing sound, of being in the midst of the action or process of making it sound" (Feld, 2017;Feld et al, 2020). Therefore, exercising a perspective of lofi hip hop as a sounding means not categorizing it as a musical genre, or isolating it as an object to be analysed, but understanding its relationship with the world, humans and nonhumans that surround such sound.…”