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Um olhar musical sobre a canção Filhos de Gandhy a partir da performance de Gilberto Gil na USP em 1973

2020; Volume: 7; Linguagem: Inglês

10.20396/muspop.v7i..13354

2316-7858

Marco Gérard, Tassio da Rosa Ramos, Almir Côrtes,

Sociology and Education in Brazil

This article aims to show and contextualize some performance aspects of the song Filhos de Gandhy by Gilberto Gil, in the concert played by the artist in 26th, May of 1973 at the Escola Politecnica da USP – a legendary concert, controversial, and with significant political content that gradually has been rediscovered. The choice of this tune is somehow related to our affection with the afoxe Filhos de Gandhy itself, and also to the possibility of doing an analysis of the “happening” performed by Gilberto Gil during this concert – where he incorporates, as we can say, an “entity” that tells “causos” (stories), and narrates in details the history of this afoxe. This work investigates the artist performance and its developments proposed by Gil in his guitar, that condenses rhythmic elements from ijexa’s drums, by playing a groove while he sings a melody that interacts all the time with that base. This kind of performance had already become iconic then, since Gil had performed it in many concerts at that time.