“A man to call yours”

musical discourse and gendering

Authors

  • Álvaro Simões Corrêa Neder Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) (Brazil)

Keywords:

Musical discourse and gendering, Subjectivity and cultural criticism, Poststructuralism in music

Abstract

This article examines musical genre as an anonymous collectivity’s discourse. Considering socially attached connotations to certain rock subgenres, feminine challenge strategies to the positions assigned to women are implemented through women’s appropriation of roles traditionally performed by men. Such procedures are illuminated by the confrontation of Brazilian singers Marina Lima and Erasmo Carlos’ renderings for Mesmo que seja eu [Even if it’s me], a song by Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos. Relativizing the notion of authorial autonomy, the article subscribes to the poststructuralist perspective that the artists themselves are discourses of a collectivity, and concludes with a consideration of the role of music as a social discourse in the production of new subjectivities, and in the restructuring of social order.

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Author Biography

Álvaro Simões Corrêa Neder, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) (Brazil)

He is an ethno/musicologist and professor of undergraduate and graduate studies at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). He holds a PhD in Music from UNIRIO (2012), and a Multidisciplinary in Literature (Brazilian Literature, Language and Literature Theory) by PUC-Rio (2007). She was a Teacher Assistant at Brown University during part of her doctoral internship at this university, teaching the course Introduction to Ethnomusicology. He published the book Creativity in Education: Can Schools Learn with the Jazz Experience? (WCP, USA, 2002). Her doctoral thesis on the MPB of the 60s was selected by the Graduate Program in Literature at PUC-Rio to represent the program in the 2008 Capes National Grand Prix of Doctoral Theses. As music critic, he has published texts for several reference books released in the U.S. and more than 2,300 articles in the American press. press. Since 1980 he has worked as a music teacher, musician and music producer, and was a member of the Old Time String Band, coordinated by ethnomusicologist Jeff Titon.

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Published

2013-11-10

How to Cite

Neder, Álvaro Simões Corrêa. 2013. “‘A Man to Call yours’: Musical Discourse and Gendering”. Per Musi, no. 28 (November):1-6. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/39638.

Issue

No. 28 (2013): General Topics

Section

Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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