A Rei Bantu’s journey

Nostalgia and modernity in Jorge Du Peixe's mediatic and musical performance

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze the musical and communicational aspects of the song Rei Bantu, more specifically from the re-recording by singer Jorge Du Peixe, released in 2021 as a single from the album Baião Granfino. Based on three axes of analysis: 1) taste performance and fandom disputes; 2) media and nostalgia; and 3) performance and expressive coherence, the aim is to investigate how Du Peixe's interpretation articulates and tensions dimensions such as modernity and tradition based on the following corpus: 1) the song per se; and 2) the single's launch post, published on the artist's social networks. The conclusion is that the work plays between different strands of taste, combining tradition and modernity by creating a place between these two ideal types.