The long distance buses often force the traveler to experience torture like "pedagogical" suffered by the protagonist Clockwork Orange, who is placed with no possibility of escape, with a screen that emits Ultraviolence images, which together with the music and the physical sensations of discomfort in the viewer a cause terrible discomfort. Needless to say that the "release request" (it consists in being free from the prison or in a collective loss after 15 hours) any event which semejare that kind of experience leads to immediate rejection. It happens often with films of Will Smith and Denzel Whashington. This time, I went with the DVD release of a recital of the famous mega Alejandro Sanz.
Next to me, upon a corridor, was located a nun. (Also the nuns travel on long distance buses. I thought they only flew, received grants from the Lord.)
The presence of the "sister" makes me understand the programming to entertain us on these cars. Designed for prospective nuns, children and elderly people, or based on a possible leveling of expectations "average" passenger in general.
I am surprised to see that the sister who is sitting in parallel (there is huge hallway that mediates between the two) has reclined his seat to sleep and not yet removed the cap of the head, I do not know what it is, if is a habit or a whim. Or rather a mandate.
In the "Ludovico" dvd sings, moves and breathes Alejandro Sanz, English, contemporary, handsome, singer of ballads. It cheered to tears by a crowd of thousands and thousands of fans swarming in a huge stadium or theater.
So we have a typical mass romantic musician. And, if we assume that, like all artists, the deals said to "represent" more than the present, that is, makes of himself an "image" and that the degree of sharpness to do for its success, we say that in the case of Alejandro Sanz, the image takes the strength of an allegory. The highest you can get on the scale represents.
Why say this? Step explain. Being an allegory
means being an active cluster of metaphors, a complex figure made up of ideas. In the present case, certain conceptions of love, man and woman is worth of the human form "Alejandro Sanz on the scene. And I'm not talking about supernatural or mystical entities. I'm talking about a symbolic operation, transfer, very common, carried out with or without awareness of artists, but above all, the musicians of the masses. What I want is that they limit, in general, operates a mechanical .
words, all Alejandro Sanz is a rhetorical device, a cognitive tool of analogical reasoning, which includes complex ideas about a "way of seeing the world."
Sanz, the romantic ideal, the friendly and cordial. The simple boy. The handsome knight. Represents, from its being on stage, an ideal of love, devotion to the beloved.
The number of women who cheer this kind of music - because, let's face it, fans are almost always on the side fememino - fill their ideological and sentimental expectations in this type of show, in which they worship - here yeah mythical analogies job-to love apoteótico, crying, complaining, forgive and accept. That man nineteenth-century romantic who seeks to serve women or women angel devil, always sweeping and beautiful.
"But what is the problem," I say, recalling the images of a Sandro recovered or a Roberto Carlos, to name a Latino phenomena worthy interpreters for retro lovers of romantic music, worthy gentlemen the conquest of the music scene and amatory . What is the problem of singing to love, to be a devotee of the beloved, a believer, deified women?
In the discussion of mass culture, I have no suit "apocalyptic" nor would a champion of do not know what "aura" musical. But he did not want to overlook the "strategies" of the art for the masses. Can be seen in this analysis an ethical purpose, but not the idea. I think the purpose of my essay is rather, say, anthropology, hermeneutics, contemporary.
why I want to emphasize that reprocessing and recycling until the cows, fed a symbology used. The emphasis on certain "effects" special by mass romantic musicians, fans installed in a kind of slug brain.
So the allegory These musicians make becomes the central focus of attraction. Here the "virtue" of the musician concentrates on his allegorical way of being romantic. "Nothing else? The itching stopped. Introduced, then a sort of zombismo. The musical zombismo where nineteenth-century romantic mechanics is the master who has detained the man, who is immersed in a constant babble of a way of "singing to love, and injects his ideas and emotions block the stereotyped crowds.
Okay, ludovico method has worked for me: after watching this show ever again I promise not to forget the headphones and my mp4. And the whiskey I have to ask the busbarman, will be doubled on the rock.
