Queen, the Queen: Controversies about gender and performances

Authors

  • Adriana Amaral Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)
  • Camila Monteiro University of Huddersfield (UK)
  • Thiago Soares Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2017.1.23912

Keywords:

Communication, Performance, Genres

Abstract

Based on the live performance of the group Queen in the 2015 Rock in Rio edition, when the British rock band featured a former member of reality musical show as a lead vocalist, we outline a controversy mapping to think about how gender issues, especially the debate on masculinity, can be important tools to think about the construction of value in pop music. The main issue relates to the different male performances of the two vocalists (Freddie Mercury, the original singer of the band and Adam Lambert, in Rock in Rio 2015), eliciting distinct places in the corporeality of pop music, as well as the notion of path as an apparatus capable to evoke principles of authenticity for artists. Our methodological process was the performance observation starting from three controversy categories: origins, music genres and bodies. The data was collected through YouTube, Twitter and LGBT blogs. As an initial result we indicate that the governability f bodies in a performance necessarily needs to renacte another performances, including the dichotomy surrounding presence in an update of performatic ritual where notions of file and setlist – already discussed by Diana Taylor (2013) - are important to discuss multiple possibilities of tensions and controversies in these spetacles.

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Author Biographies

Adriana Amaral, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)

Professora do PPG em Comunicação da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Pós-Doutora em Mídia, Cultura e Comunicação pela University of Surrey (Reino Unido). Pesquisadora do CNPq. Líder do GP CULTPOP.

Camila Monteiro, University of Huddersfield (UK)

Doutoranda em Música e Mídia na University of Huddersfield (UK), Mestre em Processos Midiáticos pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Bolsista da CAPES.

Thiago Soares, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), doutor em Comunicação e Cultura Contemporâneas (UFBA).

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Published

2017-01-02

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Amaral, A., Monteiro, C., & Soares, T. (2017). Queen, the Queen: Controversies about gender and performances. Revista FAMECOS, 24(1), ID23912. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2017.1.23912

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2017)

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Media and Culture

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