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- Title
Appropriation in Reverse; or What Happens When Popular Music Goes Dodecaphonic.
- Authors
DURÃO, FABIO AKCELRUD; FENERICK, JOSÉ ADRIANO
- Abstract
This paper investigates the presuppositions, functioning, and implications of Arrigo Barnabé's appropriation of advanced compositional techniques from the tradition of erudite music in popular song. In order to fully appreciate Barnabé's project, the text devotes some pages to comments on the history and social situation of post-1964 Brazilian popular music, which are then followed by an analysis of "Acapulco Drive-in" from Barnabé's LP Clara Crocodilo. The song is interpreted on three levels, those of the beat (polyrhythm X pulse), the work on the 12-tone row, and voice performance (lyrics and intonation). The conclusion points to the contradictoriness of limits: a kind of music that can either be experienced as an elaborate, highly critical construct or a reified artifact, dissolved as atmosphere.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; TWELVE-tone system; BRAZILIAN popular music; MUSICAL composition; BARNABE, Arrigo; MUSICIANS
- Publication
Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana, 2009, Vol 30, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
0163-0350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lat.0.0030