O ethos do compositor da música popular brasileira no contexto da ditadura militar

Abstract

During the military dictatorship in Brazil 1964 to 1985, the arts, especially the music produced in this country, did not agree on the military regime. To engender opposition to such regime, composers had to use linguistic, discursive and stylistic resources that subliminally persuade the public, since explicit manifestations against the regime were targets of censorship. This works aims at analyzing the discursive ethos of Brazilian Popular Music composers in this historical period, trying to identify the discursive marks and persuasive strategies used in these songs. Thus, it is our intent to prove that the construction of ethos is embodied through linguistic and discursive choices and through the interdiscursive and intertextual relations constructed by the composers. The research is based on a literature review, drawing on a qualitative methodology, which takes into account the historical and cultural reality of such period, and its corpus consists of twenty-three songs. In this study, historical, cultural and linguistic-discursive principles were considered, especially the ones offered by the French Approach to Discourse Analysis. It is concluded that during the Brazilian military regime, besides strategies attributed to the artistic domain, composers have used specific strategies to eschew the censorship and to preserve their faces, constructing, then, ethe that have survived in the Brazilian memory and have been recognized as symbols of resistance to the military regime