M.I.A. and JOE STRUMMER

Souns, Utterance and Existential Territories

Abstract

This work understands sound as an element of an utterance field. As of works of M.I.A. and Joe Strummer, it is observed how the sound is linked, above all, to an existential field. The utterance thus precedes a semiotic based on global and political issues of our time. The semiotic analysis brings Mikhail Bakhtin’s (2003) enunciation theory closer to the ontological concept of new existential territories, by Félix Guattari (2006), to understand music both as a part of a dialogical sphere of affections, semiosis and intertextuality, as well as linked to existences and singularities. In the end, the music listening will be rethought as a communicational experience that gives access to realities, beyond the paradigms of pop music.