The “sertão” reaches the Atlantic: popular music and African poetics

Abstract

The power of song doens’t decline only on its aesthetic value, but also as a vehicle that spreads information, an instrument of inquietude and joy. As literature, the voice game, the sense incorporates itself to the sound of words, and in popular music, these ones become partners on the poetic narratives. In the twientieth century, researches migrate from erudit music to urban popular music, but it is not by chance, when the Cultural Industry was born a border between erudit and popular became very tiny, because of this, the art of music cannot be included in aesthetic categories. The aim of this work is to construct an analysis of sense production in Chico César’s songs, trying to understand why theses connections of familiarity to africanist poetic happen as an ordinary experience in african diasporas, and they share poetically voice, sound, and gesture in popular music environment, even if they have been practiced in way of mass media culture. Keywords: Popular music, Africanist Poetic and Narrativities.