Identity’s (in)conveniences in the service of media visibility in carimbó and brega produced in Pará

Authors

  • Regina Lúcia Alves de Lima Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
  • Antonio Carlos Fausto da Silva Júnior Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2015.171.05

Abstract

The rise of media music from Pará has yielded national visibility to artists like Gaby Amarantos, but also to entrepreneurs and public managers on the global market. This reflects the adhesion of those individuals to cultural essentialism, established as hegemonic discourse by the entertainment industry through power relations that also contribute to the triggering and disposal of discourses in communication configuration of the carimbó and the brega. These genres have demonstrated efficacy in inserting individuals from Pará in the global symbolic market and are the target of this article, which aims at investigating how such production essentialist identity happens in these two forms of musical expression through concepts from Semiology and Cultural Studies.

Keywords: musical genres, cultural identity, Amazon.

Author Biographies

Regina Lúcia Alves de Lima, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação Comunicação, Cultura e Amazônia, da UFPA (PPGCOM/UFPA). Doutora em Comunicação e Cultura pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Antonio Carlos Fausto da Silva Júnior, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Mestrando no Programa de Pós-Graduação Comunicação, Cultura e Amazônia da UFPA (PPGCOM/UFPA)

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Published

2014-12-22

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2015): January/April

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