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Fusions of genres and styles in brazilian popular music: the musical trajectory of the group Som Imaginário

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Author(s):
Maria Beatriz Cyrino Moreira
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
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Examining board members:
Antônio Rafael Carvalho dos Santos; José Roberto Zan; Peter Dietrich
Advisor: Antônio Rafael Carvalho dos Santos
Abstract

The Brazilian group "Som Imaginário" emerged in 1969 with the purpose of accompanying the musician Milton Nascimento in his tour of 1970. The group gathered different musicians from differents music backgrounds and influences, and created a musical work full of hybridism as a result of the specific social, political and cultural context. Through the musical analysis of their three albuns, Som Imaginário (1970), Som Imaginário (1971), this study tried to identify many musical aspects such as form, genres and styles present in the sonority of the group, instrumentation used, harmony and lyrics, in order to relate these forms of musical expression with the cultural and political context of Brazil in that period, the transition between the 60's and 70's. By developing the narrative trajectory of the group, we tried to relate it to the growing phonographic industry in Brazil and associate elements of the musical production of the group with behavioral traits and ways of thinking related to the counterculture and to the term of military dictatorship in it most repressive stage (AU)

FAPESP's process: 08/07889-5 - Fusion of genres and styles within the production of the group "Som Imaginário".
Grantee:Maria Beatriz Cyrino Moreira
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master