Antônio Nóbrega: a expressão linguístico-poético-musical de um brincante pernambucano

Abstract

This doctorate dissertation has as its aim to deal with the musical-poetic- linguistic universe in which Antonio Nóbrega, an artist from the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, expresses himself as singer, composer, actor, dancer, violinist, and rebec player, taking as its basis three fields of the Portuguese language: stylistics, semantics and dialectology. The study has as its starting point the repertoire of the five CDs recorded by him in the period from 1996 to 2002 (Na pancada do ganzá, Madeira que cupim não rói, Pernambuco falando para o mundo, O marco do meio-dia e Lunário perpétuo), records which result from the homonymous spectacles. Having as basis the corpus which was analyzed here, approximations will be accomplished among the theoretical presuppositions related to the fields of study mentioned before, and the one which is verified in the lyrics which are part of this linguistic universe, giving prominence to the presence of his partners Bráulio Tavares and Wilson Freire, and taking into consideration aspects concerning the importance of Brazilian popular culture in the formation of this northeastern artist who has the writer Ariano Suassuna and the cultural movement known as Movimento Armorial as prominent referentials in his work. The reflections on the work of Antonio Nóbrega are the contributions of this doctorate dissertation in the sense of showing how it is possible to analyze a musical-literary work by using theoretical elements of the Portuguese language, establishing dialogues among more than one field of study.