Music, Experience and Mediation: popular song as memory device

Authors

  • Carlos Magno Camargos Mendonça Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Cristiane da Silveira Lima Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v10i1.5807

Keywords:

Mediatization. Memory. Music.

Abstract

Some authors define contemporary society as a culture image, whose consequences would lead to an impoverishment of experience and to the technical production of a general amnesia. In opposition to this perspective, we would rather approach the images within mediatization - thought as an interactive reference process, incomplete and faulty. We believe it is necessary to inspect the places where life is played with images and beyond them. From the Greek cosmogony, we associate memory to the aesthetic experience arguing that music can be a privileged memory device still nowadays. To test our hypothesis, we rehearsed the analysis of the song Triste Bahia, by Caetano Veloso.

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Author Biographies

Carlos Magno Camargos Mendonça, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2007). Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação (PPGCOM) da Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas - FAFICH/UFMG.

Cristiane da Silveira Lima, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutoranda em Comunicação Social e bacharel em Radialismo pela UFMG, com Formação Complementar em Música. Integrante do Grupo de Pesquisa Poéticas da Experiência.

Published

2012-06-11