AUDIO DESCRIPTION AND DIVERSITY AWARENESS: FLUTUA MUSIC VIDEO

ABSTRACT Brazil has the highest murder rate of transgender people in the world. The paper will focus on a debate of how audio description of some audiovisual products should be used to call the attention to the discrimination and violence suffered by homosexual couples. We have chosen a Brazilian mu...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Villela,Lucinéa Marcelino, Iturregui-Gallardo,Gonzalo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repository:Trabalhos em Lingüística Aplicada (Online)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:scielo:S0103-18132020000201513
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-18132020000201513
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:audio description
accessible audiovisual translation
diversity awareness
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Summary:ABSTRACT Brazil has the highest murder rate of transgender people in the world. The paper will focus on a debate of how audio description of some audiovisual products should be used to call the attention to the discrimination and violence suffered by homosexual couples. We have chosen a Brazilian music video called Flutua produced and performed by Johnny Hooker with special participation of the Brazilian singer Liniker, a black trans woman. The clip presents an outstanding visual narrative involving contemporary themes such as gays with disability, gender-fluid and homophobia. During the video a gay deaf couple spends a day having fun with friends in an urban scenario composed by known streets and places of Sao Paulo capital. At the end of the day a member of the group suffered a very violent attack. The audio description of the most relevant scenes, the identities and outfit of the singers, and their movements will be presented having in mind the music as protagonist of Flutua.