Between the telling and the singing of this song-poem: a listening and reading of "Diáspora", by Tribalistas

Abstract

This paper discusses about the narrative, and non-narrative events in the song Diáspora, a song of the Brazilian musical group called “Tribalistas” (2017). These aspects are noted as in the lyrics as in the rhythm of the song, from the hypothesis that both paths satisfy a decentralized mimetic purpose. Through which the poet-composer gives up the broadcast of the single plot, from the linearity of a report to the stories plurality as the allusions, dull scenes, references, descriptions, direct speech, pleas, together with all the audio and rhythmic strategy, especially by the percussion work. The combination between the diegetic and the lyric intensifies the course of art from the Modernity to Post-Modernity, in the way the artist set frees himself from the “need of the epic” to express the poetic in intergeneric, intermediatic, intertextual structures. It is considered, as the Diáspora and Brazilian Popular Music, in general, can join literature and music, narrativity, and free poetic expression, the short story and the singing.