Um olhar crítico para os discursos de opressão, silenciamento e poder presente em canções do movimento Tropicalista.

Abstract

The present work seeks to reflect on the discourses of oppression, silencing and power present in songs of the Tropicalist movement. The field of Critical Discourse Analysis Theory will base our studies on the theoretical assumptions of scholars like Teun Adrianus Van Dijk (2004, 2008), MELO (2009) and PEDROSA (2019). The corpus of this work consists of ten songs by big names in this movement, such as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, among others, who were greatly influenced by avant-garde currents such as concretism, influencing the plastic arts, poetry and music sharing ideologies of the libertarian thinking. To this end, the research aims to: identify the linguistic and discursive strategies that the songwriters used to denounce repression; and to pay attention to the importance that this movement had in the dictatorial context in Brazil. The songs for contextualization represented the first manifestations of the movement, its rise and fall and the marks of its influence in the years after the dictatorship. We selected songs that portray in their content ideologies and remnants of oppression experienced by the society of the time. The songs, in our view, carry with them reflection and revolutionary power, for arousing feelings of struggle and hope in society.