Crossing the orbit into a new sea

Xênia França and Afrofuturism in Nave's music video

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the use of afrofuturism by the Bahian singer Xênia França, through the analysis of her video clip Nave (2019). Trying to understand various meanings that emerge from the meaning of the black and transnational political-aesthetic movement from authors such as Dery and Tate (1994), Corbett (1994) and Eshun (2003), Womack (2013), we try to cross these references as possible continuities and audiovisual interpretations of the song. There is the understanding of Afrofuturism as a critical tool to racism and the perception of its manifestation in black arts as not only something of the contemporary. Also there is a concern about the suggestion that the singer follows a spatio-temporal connection woven by the crossroads of the black Atlantic, especially in the  African Diaspora music.