Tom Ze's Fabrication Defect and the “Esthetics of Plagiarism”: A Postmodern/Postcolonial “Cannibalist Manifesto”
2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 30; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03007760600834853
ISSN1740-1712
Autores Tópico(s)Asian Culture and Media Studies
ResumoOn his 1998 album Fabrication Defect the Brazilian composer‐performer Tom Zé articulates the discourses of postmodernity and postcoloniality. More than simply touching on various aspects of “post‐ness,” Zé forges from them an updated manifesto premised on 1928 “Cannibalist Manifesto.” The former Tropicália musician proposes an “Esthetics of Plagiarism” as a way to appropriate and then reformulate the products of Western techno‐capitalism. In this discussion, I will argue that the composer reconfigures the modernist and colonial tropes of primitivism and cannibalism in a subversively technophilic postmodern and postcolonial fashion—an oppositionality embodied in the album's “defective android” figure.
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