Tom Zé's Fabrication Defect and the “Esthetics of Plagiarism”: a postmodern/postcolonial “Cannibalist Manifesto”
| dc.contributor.author | Rollefson, J. Griffith | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-30T11:03:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-30T11:03:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-06-26 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-05-30T08:23:46Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | On 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 Oswald de Andrade’s 1928 ‘‘Cannibalist Manifesto.’’ The former Tropica´lia 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. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rollefson, J. G. (2007) 'Tom Zé's Fabrication Defect and the “Esthetics of Plagiarism”: a postmodern/postcolonial “Cannibalist Manifesto”', Popular Music and Society, 30(4), pp. 305-327. doi:10.1080/03007760600834853 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/03007760600834853 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 327 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0300-7766 | |
| dc.identifier.issued | 4 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Popular Music and Society | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 305 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/4032 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 30 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis Group | en |
| dc.rights | © 2007, Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Popular Music and Society on 26 June 2007, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03007760600834853 | en |
| dc.subject | Postmodern | en |
| dc.subject | Postcolonial | en |
| dc.subject | Primitivism | en |
| dc.subject | Cannibalism | en |
| dc.subject | Plagiarism | en |
| dc.title | Tom Zé's Fabrication Defect and the “Esthetics of Plagiarism”: a postmodern/postcolonial “Cannibalist Manifesto” | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
