Corpos miméticos: Uma interpretação do K-pop cover em São Paulo

Thiago Haruo Santos

doi:10.11606/issn.2447-7117.rt.2018.152928

Authors

Thiago Haruo Santos Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-7117.rt.2018.152928

Keywords:

cover, K-pop, mimesis, copy, dance

Abstract

This article presents an interpretation of K-pop cover practice in São Paulo city to derivate some consequences for the theory of mimesis. It shows how musical practices mediated by electronic devices as cellphones, tables or computers challenges this theory. These devices are considered here mimetic machines. From an ethnographic research made between 2014 and 2015, it shows the conceptualization of cover practice by K-pop fans. Instead of a simple imitation of K-pop idols, the cover practice emerges as a (re)production of performing effects that is actualized in music videos. Considering electronic devices as mimetic machines that put fans in contact with the South Korean pop idols, this article shows cover performers in São Paulo “giving to fans something that idols give to us”. In this sense, cover perfomer become a mimetic body, taking the point of view of art object in the art-public relation.

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Author Biography

Thiago Haruo Santos, Universidade de São Paulo

Thiago Haruo Santos holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the State University of Campinas (IFCH / UNICAMP) and also from the Instituto de Altos Estudios
Social Services of the National University of San Martín (IDAES / UNSAM), Argentina. He holds a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo, where he defended the Master's dissertation Idols in images and sounds, fans in re-action: an ethnography of K-pop's musical practice in São Paulo. He is a full researcher at the Immigration Museum of the State of São Paulo. Integrates the Musicar local project: new tracks for ethnomusicology, thematic project financed by FAPESP.