“Antonio and the identitary Variations of Portuguese contemporary culture (2017)” by Paula Guerra | Article

Abstract: “This article is focused on the preliminary analysis of a set of music lyrics by António Variações [Anthony Variations] (1983a, 1983b, 1984), which we consider representative of the multiple and plural identities that mark Portuguese cultural contemporaneity from the 1980s on. Approaching this musician has a double meaning: the way in which he represents the words of Fernando Pessoa when he pointed the importance of being “plural like the universe”; as well as the way in which each social actor can represent different social identities (to be at once Portuguese, a barber, catholic, from Braga, a musician and a variety artist). With this complex figure, it becomes important to analyze the cultural identity as a process (as a history and representation) that is plural, antynomous, recur-sive. This exercise is based on the need for a renovated epistemological understanding (Guerra, 2015b; Silva and Guerra, 2015; Guerra and Silva, 2014; Guerra and Januário, 2016) about the field of the arts as a producer of knowledge by representing the social reality in a proper and autonomous form, interfering in it and conditioning the analysis by generating interpretations of the instituted knowledge.”

 

The article is available in Portuguese and open access in the journal Ciências Sociais em Revista [Social Sciences in Review].

 

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2017

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Paula Guerra

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Unisinos