Rumble: Uma música boa para brigar (e para pensar)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v22.69143Keywords:
Rumble, música instrumental, censura, significação musical.Abstract
Starting from an unusual, but equally rich in meanings, episode of musical censorship occurred in the scenario of american popular music, this article seeks to reflect on the internalist and externalist conditions that operated in this process. Considered as a watershed in the rock scene, Rumble was an archetypal music work in terms of the construction of its symbolic meaning. Using music and anthropological conceptual tools, we suggest possibilities for answering the following question: why did an instrumental piece of music manage to operate significant musical and social reactivity? The reflections here presented take into consideration the social functions of music and are based on the structural aspects of music, as well as on the symbolic meanings of this phenomenon.