Parada obrigatória para pensar: engajamento e mercado nas canções de Gonzaguinha

• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Daniella Bertocchi
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/11207
• topic: Ditadura militar; MPB; Indústria cultural; Literatura e música; Theodor Adorno; Military dictatorship; Brazilian popular music; Cultural industry; Letras; Gonzaguinha, 1945-1991; 82

The thesis aims at analyzing the songs by Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Junior, also known as Gonzaguinha (1945-1991), produced during the years of military dictatorship in Brazil (1973-1979) and after the end of the dictatorship, when the country was going through a redemocratization period, being supported by the notion of testimony, through texts written by Marcio Seligmann-Silva, Jaime Ginzburg and Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin. The songs written by Gonzaguinha will also be studied through the concepts such as cultural industry, content of truth and cultural semiformation, developed by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno. The period selected to be analyzed as well as the division of his work is justified by the fact that Gonzaguinha composed his songs in very different periods in Brazil’s history. It is necessary to point out, however, that is not possible to make a precise cut in his work because, as it will be discussed, Gonzaguinha has always been faithful to his beliefs, despite the fact that his songs have different themes. The intention here is to study how Gonzaguinha dealt with dictatorship and how he composed during this period, as well as verify what changed in his songs when the dictatorship ended and the country went through a period of redemocratization, bearing in mind that his songs reflect a historical period marked by so distinct moments such as the dictatorship and democracy and reveal, therefore, its value to the study of songs and literature.