Approaching Semiospheres Through lists of Songs: The Semiotics of Musical Playlists

This article uses a cultural semiotic perspective to examine how musical playlists can serve to define and characterize semiospheres. It begins with a discussion of cultural semiotics and the analytical challenge of accessing a semiosphere through music. Then, it focuses on the role the lists play i...

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Autor: Moreno, Sebastián
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Repositorio:LIBERI
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:liberi.ucu.edu.uy:10895/6122
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/4050
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/6122
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:playlists
semiosfera
música
listas
colecciones
semiosphere
music
lists
collections
coleções
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Sumario:This article uses a cultural semiotic perspective to examine how musical playlists can serve to define and characterize semiospheres. It begins with a discussion of cultural semiotics and the analytical challenge of accessing a semiosphere through music. Then, it focuses on the role the lists play in defining, describing, and characterizing a semiosphere. Finally, it discusses how musical playlists —collections of songs grouped following a rule or criterion— can define and characterize a semiosphere. The analytical section studies three general types of semiospheres linked to (1) space, (2) time, and (3) collective identities. Note: This article was originally published in English in 2023 under the title "Approaching Semiospheres Through Lists of Songs: The Semiotics of Musical Playlists," in the journal Punctum, 9(1), pp. 13-29. DOI 10.18680/hss.2023.0002. The translation from English to Spanish —which only presents some formal changes and a final addendum as modifications to the original version— was made by its author.