ABSTRACT
With this chapter, I intend to analyze the listening practices developed in relation to two albums of Brazilian popular music, Selvagem? (EMI-Odeon, 1986), of the band Paralamas do Sucesso and Acabou Chorare (Som Livre, 1972), of the band Novos Baianos. The objective is to assess the social use given to such albums related with the poetic projects of antropofagia after the Tropicalismo period. From a working hypothesis according to which the digestion of external influences, their absorption, and “turning them into something else” are marks that are both aesthetic and ethical marks of Brazilian popular culture, I decided to investigate how the appropriation of those albums by the public followed such themes. To identify the hegemonic ways the albums were listened to, I followed the methodology developed by the Colombian theorist Jesús Martín-Barbero (2001), from his map of mediations. Thus, the investigation began with a historical reconstruction of the expectations of listeners and the aesthetic possibilities available in their respective contexts, to thereafter infer traits of the listening that was developed at the time.
