Luiz Gonzaga e as marcas identitárias de um povo

Abstract

This work exposes an analysis of Luiz Gonzaga’s repertoire with the intention of placing the identity marks of northeastern peoples. The research began with the following question: How can we recognize the identity marks of a people's culture? This investigation is justified from the point of view of its social scope as a way to help the learning and development of a community in relation to a cultural identity, especifically northeastern, through the scientific bias in order to promote more researches on the cultural subject, from the perspective of the relationship between library science and culture and the personal slope comes from the desire of researching a subject that was a part of my childhood and whose memory i bring with me until today and must not be forgotten. This way, it was determined as general objective to analyse the idendity marks of the Northeastern Culture in the work of Luiz Gonzaga, in order of that to happen some specific objectives were outlined: to analyse Luiz Gonzaga’s trajectory, from his early life in the city of Exu, Pernambuco until his success all over the country; to perform a selection of Luiz Gonzaga's songs within his repertoire, due to the vast number of songs recorded by him; to verify identity marks of the culture, tradition and imaginary northeastern in the songs of Luiz Gonzaga. The theoretical foundation was guided by thematics of culture and northeastern culture, music and northeastern music, Luiz Gonzaga and baião, patrimony and cultural industry, in order to contextualize the life, work and trajectory of Luiz Gonzaga, giving an overview of the relationship between Gonzaga and the Northeast. The methology of this work consists of a bibliographic exploratory research and a qualitative content analysis as a way to analyise Luiz Gonzaga’s songs. After analysing the songs and veritying the content of each of them we conclude that Gonzaga’s songs portray the identity, culture and tradition of the northeastern people.