Musical counterpublics: The dissensual sounds of Yiannis Angelakas
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The article discusses the dissensual ontology of the Greek popular musician-poet-singer YiannisAngelakas and the emergence of 'counterpublics', as theorized by Michael Warner, in the regime of musical performance. It focuses upon an ethnographically-grounded discussion of the ongoing successful remediations of the song “De horas pouthena” (You don't fit anywhere), which are explored as sensibilities of disagreement disputing the 'distribution of the sensible' in Jacques Rancière's terms. “De horas pouthena” voices a self-exiled form of subjectification regulated within and against the crisis of democracy―an ontology of “not-fitting-in” materializing utopian notions of civility within the affective economies of its punk-rock aesthetics. Angelakas' musical dissensus is also discursively explored in the memory-work of his life-story relationally produced in the context of the ethnographic encounter. Τhe discussion is further elaborated through the discussion of the song 'Airetiko' (Heretic) and the performative emergence of affective counterpublics objecting disciplinary mechanisms of subjectification in the public sphere.
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Tragaki, D. (2018). Musical counterpublics: The dissensual sounds of Yiannis Angelakas. The Greek Review of Social Research, 149, 103–120. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.15817
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