MUS 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oswald De Andrade, Liminality, Favela
Document Summary
Music and politics: political originally meant public behavior (implicit distinction between public and private existence) In uencing behavior of state of cials: establishing and exercising power, the personal is political, authoritative allocation of values. T. a. z (temporary autonomous zone) hakim bey: a moment in time and space existing of a structured and formal authority, psychological and social freedom, centrality of music perhaps because of its ephemerality. Nueva canci n: el lazo chile, celebrates rural life and culture, use of cueca rhythm (3/4 or 6/8, victor jara aligned himself w/ the poor and rural people. Street samba: people gather in streets, toss water. Liminality: state of betwixt and between, being in a special (dream) time; a threshold, brings about social transformation, temporary autonomous zone (taz) Highly structured and controlled: connections w/slums (favela, brazilian black culture. Call and responsive texture in vocals: polyrhythms.
