Chamada de trabalhos – vol. 17 n. 3 (2021) – dossiê temático "Semiótica, Música e Canção"
Call for papers – vol. 17 n. 3 (2021) – thematic issue "Semiotics, music and song"
Dir.: Lucas Takeo Shimoda (USP) and Cleyton Vieira Fernandes (UFCA)
* Submission deadline: 2021/05/31
In the year of 2020, the admission exams of one of the most reputated Brazilian universities includes in its reading list the music album Sobrevivendo no Inferno by the brazilian rap group Rationais MC's. Four years earlier, the Nobel Prize in Literature had been granted to Bob Dylan, one of the most outstanding song composers worldwide. Nowadays, the pop song has undeniably conquered its space as a cultural object in contemporary life and also enjoys full legitimacy in academic circles, which has analyzed it in the past by means of analytical tools borrowed either from poetry studies or from musicology. In the Brazilian context, this hegemony of the song becomes even more proeminent on the eve of the 35th anniversary of Luiz Tatit's inaugural work Canção: eficácia e encanto (Tatit, 1986). Since the publication of this work, the studies classified under the name “Song Semiotics” have gained in theoretical and analytical robustness, as well as in the number of practitioners throughout the country. They have reached full maturity and show elegance and conceptual economy.
On the other hand, in the research field on semiotics of instrumental music, the foundations laid by pioneers such as Eero Tarasti, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Jean Molino, Raymond Monelle, Gino Stefani among others, as well as the advances promoted by Brazilian researchers rooted in the structuralist principles of French semiotics including its several theoretical branches, can be further expanded and deepened due to its diverse nature and rich in principles that can be applied to other non-verbal languages. From European classical music, jazz, choro, popular instrumental music to a wide spectrum of ethnomusical manifestations, there is still a wide plethora of enunciative meanings and strategies to be semiotically analyzed.
Against this background, this special issue of the journal Estudos Semióticos aims to gather works on signification phenomena within popular song and music using for this purpose semiotic analytical tools in its most diverse aspects. Welcome are works either discussing theoretical and/or methodological aspects or those applied to the description and analysis of song and/or musical texts and their respective syncretic manifestations, such as soundtracks in games, films, TV shows, shorter clips, theater, advertising and political jingles – just to mention a few examples. In this direction, papers including to the musical and/or song text other related objects, such as the album, video clips, artistic performance (live and virtual) and so on, will be also welcome as long as the relevance to the domain of music and/or song remains clear. Regarding the nature of the analyzed phenomenon, the submitted papers may focus on the meaning effects in the most diverse instances, such as composition, (re)arrangement, musical interpretation, choral or orchestral conducting, performance, instrumentation/orchestration, vocal gestures among others.
Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together the most distinct semiotic works around music and song and to spark a dialogue between them that, hopefully, shall be long-lasting and fruitful in the long term.
Authors are invited to follow our submission guidelines in order to register and submit their articles. Please refer to : https://www.revistas.usp.br/esse/about/submissions .
