Musical Experience in Deaf Culture

This work is based on a dissertation in progress aiming to investigate possibilities of musical education for the development of musicality of the deaf people, considering their culture. The representation of music in contemporary society carries with it traces of its design based on a series of ideas and ideals that include a music to be heard, being this one of the numerous possibilities this individual has to perceive it. Considering the individual as an intellect-affect unit, based on the historical-cultural perspective of Vygotsky, we have as a source of research to understand this individual in his entirety and, therefore, to perceive him in the wholeness and interaction of his senses. Here we seek to understand these possibilities by means of sensory ethnography, which considers the interconnectivity of the senses in the individual, arguing that they are not disjoined, but interconnected.