Ter saudade até que é bom. Music and Affectivity in Two Recent Brazilian Documentaries

Authors

  • Irene Depetris Chauvin Investigadora Asistente CONICET Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

Music, Affectivity, Documentary, Brazil, Romanticism

Abstract

Vou Rifar Meu Coração (2011), by Ana Rieper, uses classic examples of brega music to discuss the construction of a romantic and erotic imaginary strongly connected with the everyday experience of Brazilian Northeastern people. For its part, Eduardo Coutinho’s As Canções(2011) maps out the way in which popular music influenced a whole generation from a theater stage, where men and women came to talk and sing those songs that had marked their lives. In this article, I analyze how these two Brazilian documentaries address the links between music and affectivity. While Rieper’s documentary points to the cultural dimension of emotions, or the way a musical genre interpellates this dimension, some of the songs/testimonies in As Canções awake, thought music, an understanding of affects as intensities. Thus, the two directors give account of both our musical "obsessions" and the various ways in which music "affects us."

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Published

2016-01-31

How to Cite

Depetris Chauvin, I. (2016). Ter saudade até que é bom. Music and Affectivity in Two Recent Brazilian Documentaries. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (14), 45–68. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/14141

Issue

No. 14 (2016): Thinking about Affect in Culture and Art

Section

Monograph

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