Pagode with a groove

The album Pluralidade in the spirals of Salvador's music scene

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v26.83291

Keywords:

Pop Music, Bahian Pagode, Dragged Groove

Abstract

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.

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Author Biographies

Nadja Vladi Gumes, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brasil, nadjavladi@ufrb.edu.br

Nadja Vladi é professora associada da UFRB. Docente permanente do programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da UFRB, do PPGARTES da UFRB, e do Programa Interdisciplinar em Cultura da UFBA. Doutora em Comunicação e Cultura Contemporâneas pela UFBA, foi professora visitante da McGill University (Canadá) e fez pós-doutorado na UFRJ.  É professora do curso de graduação do curso de Produção musical da UFRB. Atualmente pesquisa práticas musicais, corporeidades e territorialidades. è líder do grupo de pesquisa MusPop_MMC.

Tatiana Rodrigues Lima, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brasil tatianarodrigues@ufrb.edu.br

Tatiana Rodrigues Lima is a researcher and professor at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), where she works in the Graduate Program in Communication – Media and Narrative Formats (PPGCOM), the Graduate Program in Arts (PPGArtes), and the Center for Culture, Languages and Applied Technologies (Cecult). She coordinates the Undergraduate Program in Music Production and leads the research group Music and Cultural Mediations – MusPop/MMC (CNPq/UFRB). She is a journalist with a Master’s and PhD in Communication and Contemporary Culture from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), and holds a postdoctoral degree from the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance (Inet-md) at NOVA University Lisbon.

Lucas Amorim, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brasil amorimclucas@gmail.com

Lucas Amorim is an advertising professional and a master's student in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM) at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). He is a member of the research group Music and Cultural Mediations (MusPop) and develops research focused on pagode baiano and the dynamics of Bahia’s peripheral music scene. Currently, he is investigating the album Pluralidade by the band Fantasmão and its impact on the pagode baiano scene.

Melina Santos, Universidade Federal Fluminense,(UFF) Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil melsantos1985@gmail.com

Postdoctoral researcher in the Graduate Program in Culture and Territorialities at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), with support from FAPERJ. PhD from the Graduate Program in Communication at Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

Published

2026-02-16

How to Cite

GUMES, Nadja Vladi; RODRIGUES LIMA, Tatiana; AMORIM, Lucas; SANTOS, Melina. Pagode with a groove: The album Pluralidade in the spirals of Salvador’s music scene. MÚSICA HODIE, Goiânia, v. 26, 2026. DOI: 10.5216/mh.v26.83291. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/musica/article/view/83291. Acesso em: 19 feb. 2026.

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