One step at a time in Passinho dos Maloka:

the crossroads of the body, culture, the common, counterconduct and spectacle

Abstract

The Passinho dos Maloka has consolidated itself in the Brazilian peripheral music scene as a cultural and dance movement that proposes in contemporary times epistemic formulations enunciated by its dancing subjects, especially in circulation on digital social networks such as Instagram. With this, this article proposes to establish epistemic and empirical connections to the phenomenon of the northeastern bregafunk movement based on the intersection and possible approximations of Media Communication Theories and their conceptual structures of the body as a communicative media device. The methodological path is structured in the forms of hybridization of discourse analysis and the exploration of the concepts of body, culture, sharing of the common, counter-conduct and spectacle. Thus, the text proposes a discussion about understanding how Media Communication Theories can offer analytical and methodological tools to explore contemporary research objects, given their mobility and constant updating.