A canção engajada nos anos 80: o rock não errou

Abstract

This research joins Costa’s (2001) conception that the literary and musical speech as a discursive practice serves as a reference to the subjects, legitimizing truths and spreading ways how those subjects interact with reality, with other subjects and with themselves. Our association with Costas’s mind increased further when the objective of our project was defined as the engaged songs and the songs of protest and neoprotest of the speech community of rock80, called Brock, a musical moment with great integration of youth, when the amused discourse of the rockers served as interaction and was confused with the copyright word of those young people, changing their ideas and the way they thought, felt and acted. The theory that guided our paper was the Speech Analysis by French line, the theoretic material provided by Maingueneau (2001). Our research set out to investigate the following categories ethos, set design and linguistics code in the speech of those songs, taking as reference the seminal engagement of the protest line which was in the songs of the sixties, choosing original songs of Geraldo Vandré, Zé Kéti e Sérgio Ricardo as emblem. In this paper, we proved the involvement of rock songs of eighties observing the linguistics materiality inside the code, at the capture of its ethos by those speakers, which was reflected in the construction of the scenery. The research clarified and confirmed our initial position about the existence of marks of protest in both the gestures: the literary and musical community of the sixties and the rock tribe of eighties, as well. The first one left its trademark in an analog, black and white speech, whereas the last one left its speech in a colorful, digital format. Using a visual media language, only the formats were subservient to the protest of those songs