scholarly journals Documentary shooting and samba

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Albert Elduque
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
Brazilian Music ◽  
Young Professional ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional Singer

This article addresses the film Partido alto (Leon Hirszman, 1976­–1982), a Brazilian music documentary that showcases two sessions of partido-alto, a traditional, improvisation-based genre. The film highlights a separation between the diegetic music world, which is based on improvisation, and the technical approach to register it. First, it foregrounds the process of recording popular music through the noticeable presence of a microphone that strives to follow each singer’s unpredictable interventions. Then, the young professional singer Paulinho da Viola joins in on the performance with nonprofessional singers, working as a mediator between the official music scene and popular traditions. I suggest that, by using cameras and microphones to approximate a popular, nonrecorded form of art, the film raises some crucial issues in the history of samba. In particular, the ways in which cinematic techniques such as the sequence shot and voiceover are employed in the film allows us to reflect on the dichotomy between improvisation and recording, as well as the role of cultural mediators. Paulinho da Viola lies at the centre of these strategies, for he assumes an expert commentator and interviewer role, while also being a participant in the popular community.

Pop and the Nation-State: towards a theorisation

Popular Music ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Cloonan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
State Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Popular Music Studies ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The One

Recent years have seen two noticeable trends in Popular Music Studies. These have been on the one hand a series of works which have tried to document the ‘local’ music scene and, on the other, accounts of processes of globalisation. While not uninterested in the intermediate Nation-State level, both trends have tended to regard it as an area of increasingly less importance. To state the matter more boldly, both trends have underplayed the continually important role of the Nation-State.

“Peculiar ‘Til I D.I.E.”

Flaming? ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 115-148
Author(s):  
Alisha Lola Jones
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Same Gender ◽  
Male Homosociality ◽  
Shed Light

Focusing on Washington, DC’s gospel go-go music scene in the early 2000s, chapter 4 highlights the role of an understudied popular music in performances of socioculturally preferred black male homosociality. This chapter examines men’s performances against the stereotype of the softer, woman-like, flamboyant male vocalist through research on a percussion-heavy music from Washington, DC called gospel go-go. In essence, the go-go music band is a symbolic composite of perspectives associated with the unmarked male-dominant categories of the musicians’ pit and absentee men, who are talking back, providing musical contestation of the duplicitous preacher and choir director stereotypes. Chapter 4 aims to shed light on the musical and performative properties of male homomusicoenrapture and homosonoenrapture, the same-gender musical and sonic textures and visual dynamics that stimulate intense enjoyment while enveloping and propelling gospel go-go participants.

Remembrance of Things Past: Marxism and the Study of Popular Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
SIMON FRITH
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Commercial Music ◽  
Popular Music Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Ideology ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractThis article considers the role of Marxism in the history of popular music studies. Its approach combines the sociology of knowledge with a personal memoir and its argument is that in becoming a field of scholarly interest popular music studies drew from both Marxist theoretical arguments about cultural ideology in the 1950s and 1960s and from rock writers’ arguments about the role of music in shaping socialist bohemianism in the 1960s and 1970s. To take popular music seriously academically meant taking it seriously politically. Once established as an academic subject, however, popular music studies were absorbed into both established music departments and vocational, commercial music courses. Marxist ideas and ideologues were largely irrelevant to the subsequent development of popular music studies as a scholarly field.

Kiwi rock: popular music and cultural identity in New Zealand

Popular Music ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Shuker ◽  
Michael Pickering
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comprehensive History

The New Zealand popular music scene has seen a series of high points in recent years. Published in 1989 were John Dix's labour of love, Stranded in Paradise, a comprehensive history of New Zealand rock'n'roll; an influential report by the Trade Development Board, supportive of the local industry; and the proceedings of a well-supported Music New Zealand Convention held in 1987 (Baysting 1989). In the late 1980s, local bands featured strongly on the charts, with Dave Dobbyn (‘Slice of Heaven’, 1986), Tex Pistol (‘The Game of Love’, 1987) and the Holiday Makers (‘Sweet Lovers’, 1988) all having number one singles. Internationally, Shona Laing (‘Glad I'm Not A Kennedy’, 1987) and Crowded House (‘Don't Dream It's Over’, 1986) broke into the American market, while in Australia many New Zealand performers gathered critical accolades and commercial success.

Losing the local: Sydney and the Oz Rock tradition

Popular Music ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Homan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Live Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

In a tiny inner city pubThe amps were getting stackedLeads were getting wound upIt was full of pissed Anzacs‘Got no more gigs for Tuesday nights’ said the barman to the star,‘We're putting pokies in the lounge and strippers in the bar’The star, he raised his fingers and said ‘fuck this fucking hole’But to his roadie said ‘it's the death of rock and roll’‘There ain't no single place left to play amplified guitarEvery place is servin' long blacks if they're not already tapas bars(TISM (This Is Serious Mum), ‘The Last Australian Guitar Hero’, 1998)Introduction: local music-makingA number of recent studies have focused upon the places and spaces of popular music performance. In particular, analyses of British live music contexts have examined the role of urban landscapes in facilitating production/consumption environments. Building upon Simon Frith's (1983) initial exploration of the synthesis of leisure/work ideologies and popular music, Ruth Finnegan's detailed examination of amateur music practices in Milton Keynes (1989) and Sara Cohen's account of the Liverpool scene (1991) reveal the benefits of engaging in detailed micro-studies of the local. Paul Chevigny's history of the governance of New York City jazz venues (1991) similarly provides a rich insight into performance contexts and the importance of hitherto unnoticed city ordinances in influencing the production of live music.

scholarly journals Raul Seixas e o cenário musical brasileiro na década de 1970 * Raul Seixas and the Brazilian music scene in the 1970s

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
LUCAS MARCELO TOMAZ DE SOUZA
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Brazilian Music ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Musical Production

<p><strong>Resumo:</strong> Este trabalho possui dois objetivos distintos, porém complementares. O primeiro visa pensar a estruturação do mercado fonográfico brasileiro durante a década de 1970, focando a inserção do cantor e compositor Raul Seixas no mesmo. O segundo objetivo é o de analisar o LP Krig-ha Bandolo! de Raul Seixas, lançado em 1973, pela Philips, como forma de compreendermos as possíveis relações existentes entre a sua produção musical e as demandas comercias e simbólicas que sobre ele recaiam.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Raul Seixas – Música Popular – Rock e Indústria Cultural na Década de 1970.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This paper has two distinct goals, however they complement each other. The first one aims to think the structural organization of the Brazilian phonographic market during the 70s, focusing on the participation of the singer and songwriter Raul Seixas. The second goal is the analysis of Raul Seixas’ LP Krig-ha Bandolo!, released in 1973 by Philips, as a way of understanding the possible existing relations between him and his musical production and the commercial and symbolic demands that he had to deal with.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Raul Seixas – Popular Music – Rock and 1970's cultural industry.</p>

scholarly journals Pop Music for Kids: Sonic Markers as Narrative Strategies in Children’s Music

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirik Askerøi
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Vocal Performance ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Recording Technology ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
History Of

Whilst the creative handling of recording technology has played a major role in the development of popular music, there has been little research into the role of production in music promoted explicitly for a child audience. The term “tween” is most often applied to describe children just before they become teens, referring to children aged 9–12 years. In more recent years, however, the tween category has come to comprise children as young as 4 and up to 15 years of age. Based on the premise that there is a growing tendency for children to be “youthified” at a far younger age than occurred previously, I am keen to investigate the extent to which music plays a part in this process. Through close readings of three songs from different eras in the history of children’s music, I will explore the role of sonic markers as narrative strategies in children’s music. The overall aim is to discuss the extent to which the relationships between lyrical content, vocal performance, and production aesthetics may play a role in the youthification of child performers and audiences. 

"Why so much noise?": Polish music comics

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-229
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Lelek ◽  
Konrad Sierzputowski
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
The Real ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Polish Music ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
The Common ◽  
Role Of Women

This article is the result of research on the condition of Polish musical comics. The basis of considerations are the comics of Marcin Podolec: Smoke and Fugazi Music Club, two works of Krzysztof Owedyk: Blix and Żorżet and You will be frying in hell, as well as the worst comic of the year by Maciej Pałka and Only calmly Bartek Glazy. The text aims to show the relationships between Polish popular music and comics. Draws attention to the ways of presenting musical subcultures and individual portraits in comic culture. It also introduces the role of memory and nostalgia in the construction of illustrated musical stories in which the real order mixes with the imaginary. The article points to the common points of these works and takes into account the most important shortcomings of all six comics. It highlights the marginalization of the role of women, both in the creative process and the discussed cultural texts. Using the theories of Jacques Ranciere and Robin, James raises the question of male dominance in the Polish music comic, while shedding light on the Polish music scene.

scholarly journals “Professor, você não tem orgulho de ser brasileiro?”: a música do Brasil no fim do século XIX e início do século XX

Ouvirouver ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Silvano Fernandes Baia
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Panoramic View ◽  
Brazilian Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Getulio Vargas

Este texto apresenta a transcrição adaptada para artigo de uma palestra proferida a alunos do curso de Música da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. A palestra expôs uma visão panorâmica da música no Brasil do fim do século XIX às primeiras décadas do século XX, em especial nas cidades do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. O artigo identifica quatro vertentes composicionais, abrangendo desde uma linha mais afinada ao romantismo europeu até os compositores/intérpretes populares não letrados musicalmente que começaram a registrar suas invenções após a chegada da gravação mecânica ao Brasil, em 1902. Também localiza os primórdios do nacionalismo na música erudita brasileira, situa o surgimento da corrente do nacionalismo musical no fim dos anos 1920 como uma escola composicional que foi hegemônica até meados dos anos 1960, além de observar a relação dos músicos com o Estado a partir da ditadura de Getúlio Vargas. Enfim, analisa o caráter autoritário do projeto do nacionalismo musical para concluir com a observação de seu aspecto conservador ao cumprir um papel de resistência às técnicas composicionais surgidas na primeira metade do século XX. ABSTRACT This text presents a transcription adapted for paper of a lecture for Music college students at Federal University of Uberlândia. The lecture presented a panoramic view of the music in Brazil between the late 19th Century and the first decades of the 20th Century, especially in the cities of Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. Four major compositional lines are identified, ranging from those more aligned with European romanticism up until the composers/performers who are musically non-literate, whose inventions started being registered only after the arrival of mechanical recording in Brazil in 1902. The study herein indicates the beginnings of nationalism in Brazilian classical music and the emergence of the stream of musical nationalism in the late 1920's, as a compositional school that was hegemonic until the mid-1960's. It also takes into account the relation between musicians and the State of former president Getúlio Vargas’s dictatorship. It analyses the authoritarian character of the nationalist musical project and in conclusion, refers to its conservative aspect, seeing that it played a role of resistance to new compositional techniques that emerged in the first half of the twentieth century. KEYWORDS Brazilian music; Musical nationalism; History of Brazilian Music

Vernacular historiography and self-translation in early colonial Nigeria: Ajiṣafẹ's History of Abẹokuta

Africa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 768-789
Author(s):  
Adrian M. Deese
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Oral History ◽  
African History ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Civil Authority ◽  
Divine Kingship

AbstractEmmanuel Olympus Moore (aka Ajiṣafẹ) (c.1875/79–1940) was a pioneer of Nigerian Yorùbá literature and popular music. Ajiṣafẹ was one of the most significant Nigerian popular cultural figures of his generation. Written during the amalgamation of Nigeria, his History of Abẹokuta (1916) (Iwe Itan Abẹokuta, 1924) is a seminal text for our understanding of Abẹokuta and the Ẹgba kingdom. This article examines the bilingual passages of the History in which Ajiṣafẹ invokes oral history to construct a religious ethnography of the early Ẹgba polity. Self-translation enabled vernacular authors to mediate constituencies. The English and Yorùbá texts of the History differ in their engagement with Yorùbá cosmology. Ajiṣafẹ's texts converge in his defence of the Odùduwà dynasty; Abẹokuta, in a constitutional Yorùbá united kingdom, would be the seat of ecclesiastical power. Civil authority in Nigeria could be stabilized through an Abrahamic renegotiation of divine kingship. To establish his treatise within a genealogy of world Christianity, Ajiṣafẹ utilized self-translation as a rhetorical device to reconcile the working of providence in precolonial and colonial African history. Ajiṣafẹ's History, ultimately, is an Abrahamic exposition of the role of God's providence in bringing about the complete unification of Nigeria in September 1914.

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