Toya Arechabala
; A mixture to which we are accustomed to a daily mixture is that which occurs between music and text. The song.
A and mestizo cultural product from a style, a particular author or tradition, is added after the singer's interpretation through which we listen, we learn. And the latest twist occurs when we make the listeners popular, "we do our" through listening and repetition in a more or less toned hum.
Before you begin sharing with you the reflections on the two songs that I will refer the Flower of cinnamon and King want to do a tour on music, on the text and the fact that they sing
music.
is very difficult to talk about music just because it is an experience that no words .
invade us, reminds us of the body, stripped naked, and out of us. And you can grant to every listener, every one of us, a mirror of their own.
The music tells us nothing, no , gives a translated content logically, proposes a shift from the realm of the literal into the realm of metaphor. In this perspective music would be the limit of poetry.
could also understand the music as an art of time. Replaces unexpected life time for a set time, tidy, manipulation, rhythm. Both the percussion, like the shape of the note, which has a duration.
Some Greek myths about the music show its tremendous power. Relate it to something unconscionable, too.
and Bacchae Dionysus: a screaming music, percussion and flute. Music career and is expressed in a ritual dance near death with the god and his entourage of women in the bush outside the polis, as uncivilized, regardless of the laws. A music frenzy. drive, body, which keeps women from the IDS, the social role. Music linked to the "not all" to "the black continent" music you can return to women crazy with desire: music as identification with the primordial forces instinctual, in a dimension of the non-domesticated, orgiastic release with loss of individual consciousness. And also a community sing-scream not necessarily synchronous.
With similarities to Dionysus, which frequently accompanies is Pan, the son of Hermes, who left his mother horrified by his ugliness. A God who loves the noise, which paralyzes its cry, which can lead to panic, a strange god who dies. A mongrel of a man and goat, border, associated with sex and the wild who tries unsuccessfully to seduce nymphs and making musical instruments metamorphosis they suffer in their flight: Syrinx became cane and then the flute leads to their lips sound Eco repeated.
Rejection makes you have, music.
"What to do with the music of the body of the drive, the drum and shout, wordless music of the flute with no chords, no harmony reassuring, with no agreement?
instruments are added harmonics, lira versus the fife, and especially the word is added.
The word conversion cry. The conversion of toned and jubilant cry of a child playing with the reel in the fort-da phonemes. The domestication of the cry that marks a rate of absence and presence, an interval. Two toned screams in which Freud hear two words that mean something. Voice that is pure origin sound, beyond the sense like the babbling baby play with sounds.
So the music that screams and dances that the singing would be a first attempt at symbolization. Fife diachronic time the synchronicity of the lyre, another.
But even with these limits the seductive voice of the sirens the charm of the voice of Orpheus show something that is dangerous, can not be heard without risk of dying for it. It is the voice that, while spoken with respect, keeps invoking his vocation. And that is acting in its melody and the flute of Dionysus, in spite of the harmonic, which carries the line synchronous Apollonian.
And is that voice in itself leads the body, body, and therefore "dangerous.
mermaids are female and winged monsters, with head and chest of a woman and body of a bird. No name, no one in particular is known, and have a voice that attracts men and then destroy. His singing is linked to death, the seduction that destroys and devours, the desire killer.
Hearing the siren song is the mix inseparable from pleasure and pain. At the risk of yielding to the call of that enjoyment is the hero of the neck ties. A joy that has not undergone symbolic castration. The pure voice siren, loving affection and irresistible imagery. The voice that recalls the enjoyment body lost the source.
The hero Orfeo "crazy", causes outside himself through "enchantment" of the rapture. He is a hero between Apollo and Dionysus, a genius of music and poetry, a famous singer, joining the song with the sound of the lyre.
Her singing touches magical beasts, birds, fish, even ends the sirens in the expedition of the Argonauts. Arrives to seduce death in his descent into Hades.
Is closer to the melody of rhythm and dancing world of Dionysus. Leads to the love poetry in his constant longing for Eurydice. Orfeo is associated with the masculine through the lyre of Apollo, but she sings like her mother's muse Calliope, that of the beautiful voice. Orpheus's voice would be the dark side of the great goddess, something charming, sleepy and quiet as mothers, whose melody is the tone of the voice of the mother who learns to differentiate before his face, voice and melody rather than lyrics.
Apollo, the god wider range of musicians is the leader and guide of the choir of the Muses. It's music as distance, ordered, prescribed. Harmony. Also it is the music that is shared, communal and participatory, but the author, and privileged interpreter divo imposed distances. Right. Shows the supremacy of the lira against the flute just skinning Marsyas.
The god screamed at born: give me my lyre and my curved bow, I announce to men the inflexible will of Zeus "(Homeric Hymn). This is the voice of the divine command, the superego, the other side of the female voice of the charm, the spell of enchantment. Leads to the law and order, the legal aspects of the religion of Apollo. Is the voice that is imposed on the Kassandra, the feminine. Exorcise the dimension of knowledge of the occult.
In the Republic Plato believes that the first step to combat the chaos of civilization is making "music and rhythm to follow the speech," they do not separate, not independent of the words and the music is dangerous, it overlooks the pleasure and loss .
The singing voice can not be separated from the words that give meaning you must limit it to the letter, to lose its ambiguity to exorcise his menacing character. Avoid what has the voice of a dangerous the word that limits, it symbolizes.
Whether listening to music, singing the fact
What about the music man, with the ability to listen, remember and repeat the music we listen?
other notes sound like if they were ours, as if they could be ours. Besides the man does not seem to be enough to listen to music and sings and repeats. And singing, repeating in a singsong music of others is a way of making music.
Maybe when we sing an erotic relationship with our voice heard and otherwise. O partial use, autoerotic, transitional, in the humming. The vocal object, a value of fetish, the sign of a sound object is missing. Signal substitution failure and repair.
how you play is sung only in the act of playing, singing voice we face, the voice of their own and other's voice. We make music, sing what to do with the voice of the other and raise their voice to find the ear of the Other. Singing, dancing is a way to turn it into a spiritual body, art, art of the evil that you know make do with that object making art through sublimation.
vocal music, dangerous for the voice, has two features that allow us to handle, let us sing the text that limited in its symbolism and this dimension of play in the singing. A game that allows "Pull" the voice, playing with her babies as they explore the sounds.
could understand the music or poetry as a therapeutic regression, similar to transitional phenomena. Substitutes would be symbolic of the initial basis of security and protection internalized. Thus, the trauma could be overcome through artistic production through the recreation of the initial experience helplessness.
What we hear, repeat and sing "is pleasure, is pleasure? "Pleasure as I fully and relaxation or somehow affects us and the subject is lost in the experience of spending, in line with the Dionysian?
Some sing some songs with a group of friends in an excursion or about some alcohol, others in the solitude of the car or shower. Many times over the playback of a disc or in concert with the artist's voice on duty. The public enjoys singing with him, listen not only looking but usually involved singing and dancing parts. And welcomes more when else does. The artists know this and often seek ways to engage the audience with repetition at least of certain phrases or looking to give palms ... And there is something that Freud described in the "psychology of the masses The individual is allowed to invade by emotion and this emotional state is transmitted to the ground.
The magic of song and music community allows us to transform us into One can have different opinions but all sing the same tune vibrate in sync. We open up the feeling of brotherhood. Awaken the feeling of oneness with ourselves and with others.
The singing, humming us to the world of amateur, amateur. For Barthes this situation of "amateur" is like a release of civilization a performance where the image does not worry that is triggered by it in others, but the text is sung for the pleasure of singing ... It breaks the separation between producers and consumers, the consumer society and market and society at stake of amateurs where the emphasis is on doing, singing, playing, and not in the song as a product. The joy of singing, something perhaps even subversive, marginal.
And along with this, as in the festivals and carnivals, a way out "socially correct" a demanding superego, which allows some regression, the momentary violation of certain laws, certain excesses of permissiveness before
Point: the unconscious of the text
In listening to the music the message of others becomes our own word. The listener is filled with meanings by converting sounds into meaningful text that affect the listener and which require decryption.
Listen as possible, to decipher the secret that brings together two individuals, a total questioning of an individual to another. As in listening unconscious psychoanalytic unconscious, the unconscious of the speaker that is supposed to be listening. A melody through a voice that we hear in itself, but we hear what he says and notes issued, which "conveys." Some songs that bring us closer to the "in-audit." A hearing on the subject of the unconscious.
, Words and music are joined, and this fact makes the analysis becomes more complex. And that can be approached from many different fields : musicologists, anthropologists, sociologists, analysts, and questions such as what makes a musical style is defined as its own, vals and ranchera Peru and Mexico in these songs. It may be the tradition, is the attempt from the power the survival and strengthening of nationalism as the music in any way represent us.
The music is a sign of social identifiers. This is not only the discourse but the music say what distinguishes mariachi rockers or rappers. Is vehicle identifications and ascriptions age groups, countries, or anti-system attitudes towards ....
However, these ways of bringing music to the enjoyment of pleasure, and their use in politics are pointing to the unconscious text .... Because it seems that the unconscious of listeners tune in to "the unconscious of the text", as in folk tales, in popular music are recited, repeated certain themes are enacted in a kind of acting out.
Following "the pleasure of the text" Barthes:
"text of pleasure: that happy , fill, causes euphoria, comes from culture, not break with it "Text of bliss: he who puts in a state of loss, it unsettles the historical cultural hesitation"
Where would the lyrics of these songs that listeners enthroned, repeatedly hear, sing, make your own? A music that people recognize, music, even with clear authorship, is adopted by listeners as "popular" ... Learned music by listening to an oral tradition in our urban and literate times
What do we say when we sing, why we sing that, or we select? Anthropologists and musicologists will emphasize what is of identificatory, as is the strengthening of the membership of a group ... But the peculiarity of this phenomenon to repeat and sing these songs "popular" is that it transcends national boundaries and genres of music and is adopted by listeners elsewhere.
So
becomes a text that can do other than to divergent readings of the text broken from the point of view of communication, mestizo.
- Chabuca / José Alfredo: The flower of the cinnamon and King
as examples the fact I bring capacity of certain songs that transcend their borders, their local identities, an issue of Chabuca Granda (1920-1983) and a José Alfredo Jiménez (1926-1973) in his career predated the rise of the Internet, outside dimensions of music "global" youth, previous the international circuit of the World Music. They were able to generate a cultural mix, specific hybridization, added to the mixing inherent to the cultural processes. The king, the flower of the cinnamon can be regarded as musical hymns refer to the Mexican and Peruvian identity. And they sing and are popular outside its borders even if they are copies or typical works, with a very strong musical identity.
What sing these texts?
Many songs "popular" often traveled for a loss. What is sung is the affect of the lost, is a love, a city, the last time ... A starting point of a nostalgia, a wound that will not close.
Let's start with the titles: King, The flower of the cinnamon.
Two masculine and feminine definite articles: the and the.
The king, male, as par excellence, without any feature which particularice. The other title seems to refer to a woman who is nicknamed The flower, a flower specifically, the cinnamon. Cinnamon to the popularly attributed to him aphrodisiac. Not as well known as a flower of the jasmine or roses that appear in the text.
King Man, woman Flor
King
I know that I'm out, but the day I die I know I have to mourn
( mourn, mourn, mourn and mourn )
will say that I wanted, but you will be very sad
and so you're staying .
With or without money always do what I want and my word is law
I have no throne or queen, no one who understands me but I'm still the king.
A stone path taught me that my destiny was rolling and rolling
(rolling and rolling, rolling and rolling)
then told me that there is a carrier to arrive first
but we must go.
- First verse:
seems that the text originally sung by the affection of a loss, abandonment in the context of a loving passion.
What is the reaction to this become so succinctly expressed in "I know very well I'm out" of this "act" the story of the text? There is a position of knowledge, "I know just where I am, out of" your life "but denies that this means outside of your love. And he takes some revenge by predicting initial cessation for a loving partner inability to grieve. And the choir "to mourn, and mourn, mourn and mourn" as the voice of Echo, liable to repeat the speech of another, repeating the last sounds from the voice that sings like a echolalic effect of passion.
Against this be out before the loss "passive" unwanted adopting an active and fantasizes in own death as a loss, to get an "I am indeed who leaves."
Although attempts to deny love, "say that he loved me" the sadness of the memory is forever "and you're staying." There is no forgetting possible. It's the fantasy of being loved to be at some point want to return and then you will find our revenge, our revenge through our neglect.
And the chorus comes , which changes the pace and valsea, it becomes alive and is the part that the audience chanted.
With money or without it, with or without you, you do what you do, if you let me out of your life, and do not have, having you or not, always do what I want. I, like Freud's grandson in Fort-da game, shooting the film and I pick it up, I "took the controls" of your absence, your abandonment.
I have or not I have: money, throne, queen, or anyone who understands me. It is of having the analyst whether or not to ...
I am the law, I use the language of the law even to do as they say in Spain "My real winner." I do not act according to law but according to my whim: I always do what I want. I can do everything, nothing gets in my omnipotence, no castration.
I was the king, but not enough, though you're gone, I'm still the king of your life as it shows that I'll mourn ad eternum saddened. Despite the loss of the throne and the queen, the Oedipus, the rejection and I'm still the king.
- Second stanza:
The loving partner has disappeared.
What exists instead is exposure of concepts that lead to learning a particular manner.
Two characters: a rock and a carrier who speak and teach. One first, one after a temporal relationship between the two teachings.
A stone path, a tramp, is that shows the destination. Any of the two meanings might be interested: "chain of events considered to be necessary and fatal" or the " goal point ". If the latter: my goal is to roll and roll, if first I have to roll and roll ... In both cases the roll, not the ride, is a non-voluntary action, something that happens to the stones, the boulders, pushed by water or slopes. Something pushes the subject in its tour.
But where is the mandate of being first to deny the carrier later?
A carrier is someone who herd the animals to carry the load , an emblematic figure of the Mexican people. And again the know. I know I'm out, I know you have to mourn, and a carrier, either as a stone, known to reach herding animals bearing the burden.
Stone and carrier accepted standards and to also invite him to accept them. The first acceptance of a parental figure in reference to the destination, the carrier to accept not being first, not the One
- The chorus offers a level of opposition to these characters . Something that people will sing or coree usually so loud, or even move to its beat.
What has been lost, what has not? What then is denied?
denial is given to the law of the carrier, the teaching of the stone: I do what I want, my word is law, I'm still the king. I'm the One
There is a defiant challenge that involves a relationship with the Other, someone to listen to what you are saying, to impress someone with the transgression of what I want and do not recognize law but my word.
resonates to what the child would say "king of the house" do they want; deny castration in short. A pre oedipal position. One way sweetened socially permissible in the choral song of perversion through denial.
A social outlet, a regression licensed to a pregenital stage, the omnipotence longed ...
Flower of cinnamon
sings "What has the flower of the cinnamon?
is a text with many variations, Lima / Lima, garnish / decorated ... Whether it has been necessary to seek Chabuca own version which is what I follow these lines.
few words of text are uncommon for part of his audience. Such smoothness is not much used in Spain. It is not clear its "argument", or perhaps it is addressed or of the speaker. What more is retained is that it speaks of a woman, a river, a bridge and a mall. A woman in particular and concrete landscapes.
The protagonist takes the title of the song to reach the scene, expect the chorus to make his appearance. We know nothing of that goes to Lima. Later he describes as dark and just do not tell him.
reporter's relationship with the woman is given the eyes, no words. The relationship with Lima is through the voice that asks you to give your ears.
Let me tell you Lima
Let me tell you glory
Del dream evoking memories
From the old bridge, the river and the mall
Let me tell you Lima;
Now that perfumes the memory still
Now still rocks in a dream
The old bridge, the river and the mall
It begins with a request: let me tell you-sing, which needs approval of an absent interlocutor, a man in Lima. He describes something that is a dream, a fantasy that is remembered, it is mentioned. What happens in a specific place, a bridge, a river and a specific mall. Thus, just as the ghost, there is a mise en scene in which the subject relates to the object of his desire.
In the second stanza is added to memory, the memory, the effect of a perfume dreamy blurry, fleeting and evanescent. Something that can be lost to dissipate the aroma at this temporality of yet, still remembered but whose memory will be missed. The Lima has to listen to something not lost. This is to prevent loss through the reconstruction of memory.
The loss of love in the king refuses through the eternal memory, of forgetting impossible and return to a pre-Oedipal stage. In the Flower of cinnamon to the loss, amid fears the possible loss, claim the other to develop a memory. There is an attempt to make a fiction, to make a story through the other.
(Chorus):
Jasmine and roses in her hair on the face
Airosa walked the flower of the cinnamon Spilled
smoothness and his step left
Aromas of mixing in the chest had
There are flowers in nearly every stanza: jasmine, rose, cinnamon. Jasmine adorning or description of a white hair, rosy-faced roses, cinnamon flower of love ...
The flower as a symbol of the feminine. The flower of the cinnamon and femininity, such as being female. In addition to these flowers that carry a scent, a perfume, it is specified that the woman leaves behind, which is giving away something that brings in the chest, a mixture of something that smells. A body waste and waste precious. A waste the body that represents the pinnacle of value.
This is a screen memory of another memory. The breast milk, the smell of the woman-mother, perhaps. The olfactory and drive, as erogenous zone, the smell of the mother as object. Something very primal that refers to the intervention of the olfactory in the constitution of primitive psyche. The same force that tells Suskind's novel.
Calls is set to Lima a woman that takes into account a woman. Perhaps the body parts of a woman ... The agalma, beautiful image that is offered to admiration. Some of the singer's own narcissism is invested in this flower, like a living object which one can boast. One part, parts, detached from a whole, a partial object represented as part of a totally absent. An object focused by the partial drives and shines the "fragment" of the drive, the focused object being described. agalma brightness more than pleasure is a pleasure , and manifests in turn prompting a lack of desire.
are asked to listen to a fantasy, a memory singer wants transmit. Of an object, a ghost that has seduced.
From the bridge to the mall
often walk takes
in the path he shudders
the rate of hip
recorded the laughter of the river breeze
and wind tossed it
the bridge to the mall
The flower of the cinnamon as the epitome of the feminine woman. The Flower-Women
A description of a woman, essentially the body of a woman, a woman who walks gracefully moving her hips, which has a small foot, her hair decorated with flowers or white flushed face, or maybe red for hot, it smells in a characteristic manner ...
Here is a hysterical sought to be appointed as a woman through her body image. A search in the image on the question of femininity, a way to name the unnamable in place of the feminine. Venera through the body of another woman who holds the secret of what it is, the mystery of what it is, and try through another woman, to give body.
Something resonates in the text of the hysterical way questions the desire and wondered what is to be a woman who does not know the answer given thought to have other women, which is between one woman and one man. Hence the need for three characters: the Lima, the Flower and who sings, as in hysteria, she is never alone but in a love triangle. The need for another woman, the woman who knows the mystery.
Opera "The Flower of cinnamon as the other woman that can identify, identify the one that puts the body, which has an answer to your question of what is a woman?
the singer Do you identify other part with the Lima party?
Let me tell you Lima
Ay! Let me tell you, dark
my thoughts
to see if they wake up from sleep,
sleep entertaining, dark,
your feelings
Again calls to Lima, now particularized to "brown", a gentle, say local dark-skinned black (again a physical description) to let the story take you to hear action, gives a mandate that makes you wake up in another fantasy that "entertains his feelings." Lima's fantasy, fantasy is different than the text sung in the first stanzas. That changed a fantasy for what was dream and now qualifies for thought. It is no longer a fantasy, not a dream of which he speaks, sings, is the other who is dreaming ... Y of that other dream is what it enjoins the first to wake up and then to a series of tasks.
All previous text it referred to the feelings, smells, fantasies and dreams, rhythmic music and the river walk and no transition of thought comes the imperative expressed in the form of command:
aims of the smoothness that gives the Flor de Canela
Garnish with jasmine qualifying her beauty.
hope the smoothness: a form of smell, a way to incorporate the smoothness ... again. Reviewing meanings to see what can be drawn would be three groups: naivete and sincerity, boldness and impudence, wit and cleverness
aims for the self-confidence, the boldness, grace, the ingenuity, fill yourself with all , learn from it, become as it might. The smoothness that is repeated in the text, as mentioned, the agalma in all its glory. To this enjoyment is summoned and warned the dark Lima and that he heard and repeated the song.
recap mandates of the text, the abundance of verbs in the imperative, especially in this passage:
"Let me tell you / I tell you to hear my story of feelings and images and build the fiction to me.
-leave to tell you my mind is the same story images become demand :
-first to awaken from sleep and waking:
agalma -Stir-Flor Women and
- "opera" on it, re -decorating the Flor de la Canela, smell another flower, jasmine. Flower on flower scent of smell. Why this qualifies her beauty? Why is it necessary to qualify? Could it be perhaps a way to ensure, to cover? Without ornamental beauty can show their sublime and terrible beauty as that which is one step behind the terror. It is necessary to veil the beauty of the flower-woman to face her.
And perhaps the main thing, cover up the smell that Flor de la Canela shed with the smell of jasmine.
Carpet bridge again, and graces the mall
other characters are back on stage present throughout the text: the bridge and the mall.
And for them has to rush around Lima certain actions: carpet and deck, which also means an ornament. And a reference to the past to be updated in this "new"
pacing That the river passing through the village
Mention the river he points out as something different, a character far removed from any possible action Lima on it. The river, like a musical god, sets the pace which is the rhythm and timing. is the river who encompass a woman's footsteps on the sidewalk. They are the steps in the stone rolled down the road. Are steps in the subject, the woman whom the river has given the grid of the beat and not the direction of his footsteps on the sidewalk.
And remember .... jasmine in her hair ...
The epilogue, the coda, the final chorus begins with And remember ...
All
stanza is written with an eye on the past, imperfect: the Flor de la Canela walking, picking, throw ... I do not ask her to listen to Lima but remember, is the need for memory, enter the time spent on this.
Something must be cared for in short through the memory, something that should not be forgotten, something that is not be missed, and hence the last term to save the ghost.
Here ends the tour of The King and The Flower of cinnamon leaving open the obvious issues such as masculine and feminine in these songs or what the difference, if any, between it and sing a woman or a man.
the end of these lines, of this talk, I would have given rise to new questions and concerns you on the fusion between music and lyrics, between song and singer between listening and singing.
And I hope I have shown that repeated texts are far from neutral, 'innocent', but they are a rich source for learning the constitution of our psyche and unconscious game.