Orquestra Errante Free Improvisation and Decolonial Practices at the Brazilian University

Abstract

Through this article, I seek to demonstrate how much the activities developed by Orquestra Errante for more than ten years at the University of São Paulo were consolidated as a practical and theoretical proposal for reflection on issues related to new decolonial epistemologies. These decolonial perspectives emerge as a fundamental theme for the urgent review of political pedagogical projects at universities that can help and enable the confrontation of colonial cultural dependence and economic exclusion and inequality in Brazil.

Keywords:

• Orquestra Errante,
• decolonial perpectives,
• musical improvisation,
• Music education