TransmutAção: ancestry in BNegão’s poetic

Abstract

This article intends to analyze three songs from the album TransmutAção, by rapper Bnegão, together with the group Seletores de Frequência. The analysis focuses on a specific performance of the artists, made at the Centro Cultural Vila Verde, in São Paulo, in 2015, in which ancestry and rhythm mark the teachings of time and mark the gift of the present moment. The analysis is based mainly on the ideas of Paul Zumthor, as it highlights issues related to performance and how it is constituted. The text also covers the notion of performance due to its ritualistic character that involves spirituality (in this case, the content of Bnegão's message) and its poetic-musical character that makes an invocation of the present moment, which prioritizes the here and now of the members of the poetic act. The article explores performance as a whole, analyzing music, poetry, gesture and the constitution of the event. In some moments, the album is also mentioned as a whole, as a work, for carrying a message that crosses all the songs.