Paulo Costa Lima

Paulo Costa Lima (born 1954 in Salvador, Bahia) is a senior Brazilian composer and music theorist, which has won more than 20 national and international Prizes and Commissions along his career. A member of the Brazilian Academy of Music, Costa Lima's main interest is the interaction between composition and culture, including its political aspects, namely composition as a way of resisting colonization and against the "waste of experience," the traditional circuit in which ideas (theory) are produced elsewhere and absorbed by the peripherical South of the Globe, as if the experience of populations in the periphery would be incapable of producing theory grounded musical practices. Costa Lima's publications are on topics such as the theory and pedagogy of musical composition (the notion of compositionality, for instance), analysis and history of Brazilian contemporary music analysis of Brazilian popular songs, the possible dialogue between music and psychoanalysis, and cultural semantics. The notion of Compositionality was proposed in 2011 and used to refer to an internal reason that constitutes compositional acts; in other words, the creation of stipulated worlds of meaning from the intertwining of theory and practice. His compositional interests include the rhythmic tradition of the Candomblé. From 2020 on, Costa Lima has been posting short video analysis of Brazilian popular songs (usually showing aspects completely surprising to the general public) generating great interest in the social media, leading to a public of more than 200.000 people Provided by Wikipedia