A memória social na musicalidade de Gilberto Gil em tempos de exceção

Abstract

The dissertation deals with the relationship between law and music as an interdisciplinary way to understand social memory within the scope of Gilberto Gil's musical work. Songs by the artist written during the period of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship are selectively analyzed. The right to memory in times of exception is investigated, through literary-musical discourse. The analyzed songs “Cálice” and “O seu amor”, from the 1970s, present the restriction of freedom of expression, giving voice to the social memory of human rights violations, bringing awareness of the dictatorship through musical expression. We opt for an inductive, qualitative, theoretical, documentary and interdisciplinary methodology anchored in the phenomenological hermeneutic method with contributions from discourse analysis. This research is justified by providing an understanding of Brazilian popular music as a critical experience of historical periods that violated human rights and weakened fundamental rights, integrating musical memory as an expression of culture and citizenship, flows of popular consciousness and resistance in times of exception. Gilberto Gil's music is part of Brazilian social memory, and connects with the desire for the constitutionalization of rights in an emancipatory dimension that aims to re-signify plural identities and democratic paths necessary for the exercise and realization of fundamental rights.