Human and Non-Human Agencies Reconfiguring the Tradition of Popular Song.

Abstract

This article presents an investigation motivated by the perception that contemporary forms of music consumption may reconfigure the meaning of a certain musical tradition. The author, engaged in research on vocal gesturalities, observed throughout his trajectory that listening to songs through digital platforms activates algorithmic recommendation mechanisms that foster connections and aesthetic-musical convergences. This led to an interest in understanding how such connections construct a nexus in relation to a notion of Brazilian song tradition, as conceptualized by Marcos Napolitano and Luiz Tatit. The article presents reflections derived from the cartography of controversies (Actor-Network Theory), which does not offer definitive answers, given the ever-changing reality we experience, but rather places us before an associative reality that produces a sense of belonging through non-human agency, capable of reconfiguring the meaning of Brazilian popular music tradition.