Experience and expression in Itamar Assumpção

Authors

  • Ivan de Bruyn Ferraz

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the coincidence between experience and expression that marked the life / work of the musician Itamar Assumpção. To do so, we address this issue in ethical and aesthetic terms. As a popular musician, the artist always made a point of behaving -on and off stage- as if he were carrying the burden of accomplishing a mission. We sought to identify and think about a number of elements found in the origin and constitution of his quest, as well as on the unique musical style it brought about. Straddling contradictions between rejecting the media and becoming an icon of urban commercial music, between an intuitive compositional process and a demand for refinement, it is within paradox that Itamar clearly develops his style the seriousness of his irony-filled music, with his feet firmly planted in the loose soil of São Paulo city musical (non-)tradition.

Keywords: experience and expression; Itamar Assumpção; popular music.

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Author Biography

Ivan de Bruyn Ferraz

Mestre e doutorando em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp).

Published

2016-05-06

How to Cite

Ferraz, I. de B. (2016). Experience and expression in Itamar Assumpção. ArtCultura, 16(29). Retrieved from https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/34267