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‘I opened the door to develop kuduro at JUPSON:’ Music Studios as Spaces of Collective Creativity in the Context of Electronic Dance Music in Angola
Contemporary Music Review Pub Date : 2021-01-25 , DOI: 10.1080/07494467.2020.1863004
Stefanie Alisch

In this paper, I demonstrate how studios producing the Angolan electronic dance music (EDM) kuduro (‘hard arse’) in the capital Luanda are usefully investigated as social spaces of collective creativity. I triangulate interviews, observations, close listening and ethnographic participation. Researchers often portray kuduro and other EDM styles in the Global South using what I name the ‘scarcity-resilience narrative’. This narrative gives short shrift to the rich cultural resources that feed into EDM styles. It perpetuates problematic stereotypes about African people and occludes the deliberate labour that kuduro practitioners (‘kuduristas’) invest in their craft. As kuduristas routinely affirm that sociability drives their interpersonal creative processes I portray kuduro studios as social spaces and construe kuduro’s collective creativity through Extended Mind Theory (EMT). In my analysis, I first introduce kuduro studios in Luanda broadly and then focus on two influential kuduro studios: JUPSON and Guetto Produções. I show how kuduristas mobilise their collective creativity inside the studio by tapping into aesthetic strategies and conventions of the rich popular culture that surrounds them. Via EMT, I portray aesthetic duelling, puto-kota (‘elder-younger’) relationships, call-and-response and urban vocal strategies as collectively maintained social institutions. Inside the studio, kuduristas translate these rich resources into the sonic materiality of kuduro tracks which, in turn, are designed to achieve maximum audience response through mobilising the social institutions when radiating out into the world. This paper provides the first, fine-grained study of kuduro studios in Luanda. It de-centres the ‘scarcity-resilience narrative’ of Global South EDM by focusing on collective creativity and, as such, offers a fresh epistemological position on the study of music studios, Global South EDM and popular music in Angola.



中文翻译:

“我为在JUPSON上开发kuduro敞开了大门:”音乐工作室是安哥拉电子舞蹈音乐背景下集体创造力的空间

在本文中,我展示了如何在首都罗安达生产安哥拉电子舞蹈音乐(EDM)库杜罗(“硬阿瑟”)的工作室作为集体创造力的社会空间进行有效调查。我对访谈,观察,近距离聆听和民族志参与进行了三角划分。研究人员经常使用我所谓的“稀缺性复原力叙述”来描绘九头蛇和其他EDM风格。这种叙述使融入EDM风格的丰富文化资源显得short贬不一。它使关于非洲人民的刻板印象永久存在,并掩盖了久留罗的蓄意劳动。从业者('kuduristas')投资他们的手艺。由于kuduristas经常确认社交活动会推动他们的人际交往过程,我将kuduro工作室描述为社交空间,并通过扩展思维理论(EMT)来诠释kuduro的集体创造力。在分析中,我首先在罗安达广泛介绍kuduro工作室,然后重点介绍两个有影响力的kuduro工作室:JUPSON和GuettoProduções。我将展示kuduristas如何通过利用美学策略和周围丰富的流行文化习俗来动员他们在工作室内的集体创造力。通过EMT,我将审美维持力,普陀(“老年人”)关系,呼唤和回应以及城市发声策略描述为集体维护的社会制度。在工作室里 kuduristas将这些丰富的资源转化为kuduro音轨的声音实质性,进而通过动员社会机构向世界辐射时,通过动员社会机构来实现最大的听众响应。本文提供了罗安达库杜罗工作室的首次细粒度研究。它通过关注集体创造力来分散Global South EDM的“稀缺性-复原力”叙事,因此在研究音乐工作室,Global South EDM和安哥拉流行音乐方面提供了新的认识论立场。

更新日期:2021-02-12
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