Dialogism and polyphony in popular music: appropriations and reappropriations of meanings

• Autor(a) principal: Paranhos, Adalberto
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ArtCultura (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/68256
• topic: dialogismo; música popular; apropriação de sentidos; dialogism; popular music; appropriation of meanings

In this work I propose to approach a case study of dialogism applied to the popular music, by taking as starting point Mikhail Bakhtin’s contributions. At first, I examine two songs in which the dialogue linking them highlights the linguistic marks that make them to converge. I search to show how some elements of a romantic song have been appropriated and re-signified when it was subjected, in one other song, to an unexpected process of politicization. Then, I analyze how, in a re-recording of the same song, this latter was affected by mockeries which made the ground it stood on unstable, in a clear case of polyphony and re-appropriation of the song’s meaning. In this process, it will be verified, according to Bakhtin, that, “once settled in the other’s discourse, a second voice becomes hostile to its primitive agent and obligates it to serve opposed purposes”.