“Cântico dos cânticos, quântico dos quânticos:” dialogical relationships between art, contemporary science, and health in the album Quanta by Gilberto Gil

Abstract

This article presents a metalinguistic analysis of the songs comprising the album Quanta by Gilberto Gil, highlighting the dialogical relationships that artistic endeavors can establish between contemporary science and a vision of health. This involves a brief introduction of the theoretical/methodological framework and Bakhtin’s metalinguistics, followed by the establishment of three different analytical threads that follow the concepts of science, quantum physics, and health and healing which are present in the album, depicting the complex relationships between art, physics and health.

metalinguistics; Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975); culture