“You told me to sing, in the mind I didn't know”

formal structuring and camouflage in a peasant musical genre from the mid Jequitinhonha river (south-east of Brazil)

Authors

  • Leonardo Pires Rosse Independent researcher, Belo Horizonte, MG (Brazil)

Keywords:

Folião, Paulista, Peasant music of Brazil, Musical structuring, Semantic content

Abstract

The paulista is an important musico-choreographic peasant genre from the mid Jequitinhonha river (Minas Gerais, south-east of Brazil). Starting with a formal analysis of some of its technical parameters, this article seeks to explore mechanisms through which a musical and literary form can propose a coherent statement and at the same time difficult or restrict its apprehension. This “codification” is done here through processes of formal structuring on one hand, combined to a particular economy of any analytical or not-musical discourse about the musical practice, on the other hand. At last, a short comparison of cases claims to suggest such problem as a paradigm possibly relevant to other peasant contexts in Brazil.

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Author Biography

Leonardo Pires Rosse, Independent researcher, Belo Horizonte, MG (Brazil)

Bachelor's degree in Composition from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2003) and Master's degree in Ethnomusicology from the University Paris 8, Vincennes - Saint-Denis (France) (2009), where he defended his dissertation entitled Folia, Musique et Sociabilité à Turmalina (Brésil), [Folia, Music and Sociability in Turmalina (Brazil)], under the under the guidance of Rosalia Martinez.

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Published

2013-06-13

How to Cite

Rosse, Leonardo Pires. 2013. “‘You Told Me to Sing, in the Mind I didn’t know’: Formal Structuring and Camouflage in a Peasant Musical Genre from the Mid Jequitinhonha River (south-East of Brazil)”. Per Musi, no. 27 (June):1-12. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/39762.

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