Em defesa do corpo, em defesa da voz: a situação da performance vocal do poema e de sua investigação

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to understand the lack of importance given to research and critical thinking regarding the vocal performance of poems in studies of Brazilian poetry. In this sense, it’s important to recognize that our context is still centered in a world view that can be characterized as graphocentrism or scriptsm. The immediate consequence of such is that we lack proper tools to categorize, historicize, archive, and, in summon, critique vocal performances produced by Brazilian contemporary poets. Thus, it’s important to establish that, from critical, methodological and historical points of view, the most important research on vocal performance is yet to be made. The article closes with an analysis of a vocal performance, using criteria adequate to an oral based medium, as an example of the possibilities entangled in the research and critical thinking of vocal performance to understand different aspects of contemporary poetry.