Pagode with a groove
The album Pluralidade in the spirals of Salvador's music scene
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v26.83291Keywords:
Pop Music, Bahian Pagode, Dragged GrooveAbstract
This article reflects on the reconfigurations of the Black Bahian music scene in relation to pop music and its dialogues with oral tradition. To do so, we conducted a case study of the album Pluralidade (2008), by the pagode band Fantasmão, which allows us to consider musical dialogues with the scene established in Salvador by Ilê Aiyê in 1974, and its intersections with pop music and Afro-diasporic genres. Our argument is based on studies of pop music, territorialities, and intersectionalities in order to understand how pop intersects with Black music in Salvador. The study of the album, which introduced the so-called groove arrastado (“dragging groove”), allowed us to observe the intense flows between pagode baiano and the Afro-diasporic musical network of the Black Atlantic, as well as with pop music and samba duro.







