Música popular: janela-espelho entre o Brasil e o mundo
AUTOR(ES)
Alberto Roseiro Cavalcanti
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
This is a study on brazilian popular music in the years 1958-68, a time when songwriters who would later become public intellectuals started their careers. Three song styles are considered: bossa nova, national-popular and tropicalist. Three paradigmatic types of discourse are conceived, in order to place song authors response to the dilemma of being musically national/international. The main questions are: how do they imagine Brazil to be and how do they conceive their insertion in this imagined community? How do they manage the different positions they could take in their work and public statements in face of their view of Brazil? Another peculiarity about this period is the endurance of the song repertoire produced by those authors and by bossa nova. This leads to the question: are their musical and extra-musical prestige connected with each other? How? The theoretical framework integrates Pierre Bourdieus notions of field and position, Michel Foucaults discoursive formation and intrinsic contradiction, Bakhtin-Volosínovs ideological sign and evaluative purview, Raymond Williams structure of feeling, and finally the concept of distinction, collected from Edmond Goblot, Norbert Elias, and Bourdieu. Songs and song enunciation are took as polysemy inclined artifacts, and so, they serve as discoursive struggling subjects as well as weapons in distinction strategies. Accordingly, the cultural studies approach prevails over the concept of culture industry. To tackle the proposed questions, the notion of cultural matrix is introduced. It takes into account the competition and cooperation among different art and intellectual fields as well as their means of production. This notion helps to explain how a given position in a given field may be empowered by the way different fields cooperate. The study concludes that the symbolic capitalization of some popular song authors, which enabled them to become public intellectuals, was an effect of that empowerment. The reason why a noticeable part of the songs produced in those years became enduring items in the current brazilian popular song repertoire is the structure of feeling that they express, which corresponds to the standards of taste adopted as legitimate by college educated middle class, as part of its social distinction strategy. The sequence of the three song styles first modernizes, then renegotiates the notions of national and international inscribed in the repertoire that they constitute
ASSUNTO(S)
matriz cultural classe média música popular middle class popular music sociologia distinção distinction culture matrix
