A voz resiste, a fala insiste: o ethos vocal em canções do Pessoal do Ceará

Abstract

This paper analyzes the ethos on vocals investment four recordings of the song “A palo seco” (Belchior; 1974; 1976; Fagner, 1974; Ednardo, 1975) in order to investigate whether the findings of Costa (2001, 2011) regarding rough Pessoal do Ceará’s ethos also confirm that dimension. We use the contribution of discourse analysis, outlined by Maingueneau, and the application that Costa is this theory to literomusical discouse. We observed an acute/metal hipertimbre in the voices of Ednardo and Fagner and an hypernasality in Belchior voice that make evident a lack of balance in resonance factors. However, the physical effort that these vocal qualities appear can be seen as a transgression, which shows, for this dimension of vocal investment, a polemical tone compared to others that arose in the Brazilian literomusical discursive field. As this tone does not separate a character such vocal qualities contribute to the listener to prepare for the guarantor questioningly and aggressive ethos, similar to that already observed by Costa in verbal plan of the songs. Such vocal ethos participates in the composition of various themes and tones of the songs.