Tonzão entre dois “mundos”: mediações e agência entre o funk e a igreja.

Abstract

My analysis focuses on the trajectory of a mediator between the "world" of gospel and the "world" of funk. In this work I intend to analyze the function of mediator performed by the "funkeiro" in funk dances and cults through funk and Pentecostalism. The mediator I am referring to is Tonzão, a former dancer from the funk group "The Hawaiians" of the time they were from the producer Furacão 2000. The dancer in question went through a process of conversion to Protestantism in the AGOLD (Assembly of God of the Last Days), a church that he still congregates. The music, according to Oosterbaan (2015), is an essential aspect of Pentecostalism that assists in the coherent way it expands in the Brazilian context. Understanding urban life and all its heterogeneities, I understand that individuals participate in multiple belongings that are simultaneously interrelated in the construction of their identities and forms of representation of the social world (VELHO, 1994). Mediation is important to understand Tonzão's performance, since it allows him to move steadily between these different cultural and symbolic domains, keeping that way his "ethos" Funkeiro.