Caracterização discursiva da Bossa Nova no discurso literomusical brasileiro

Abstract

In this research; we investigate the main discursive characteristics of the Movement called Bossa Nova in the Brazilian Popular Music discourse in the music of João Gilberto; Antônio Carlos Jobim; Vinícius de Moraes; Roberto Menescal; Carlos Lyra; Ronaldo Bôscoli and Newton Mendonça; Our theoretical support is the one of the French Discourse Analysis, as delineated by Dominique Maingueneau (1997;2001b); Central concepts in this work are: discursive position and scenographic; ethical and linguistic investments (MAINGUENEAU; 2001b); To accomplish our task; we followed seven steps: 1; We showed who the predecessors were and the influence received by Bossa Nova; 2; We told the movement history; 3; We identified the principal representatives and their legacy to the Brazilian music; 4; We made the description of the musical notion of Bossa Nova concerning the verbal and musical plan; 5; We described the characteristics of the movement; 6; We demonstrated how the phonographic market was at the time and the decisive moments of Bossa nova; and 7; We ended up by analysing the songs; As we studied the corpus; we verified the scenographic investments: open spaces such as the nature; the sea; the beach; or closed ones such as inside an apartment; a plane or a bar; etc; in relation to the ethical investments: we found lyric; passionate; nostalgic; sad and sensitive individuals; as for the language code; we identified examples of internal and external plurilinguism; concerning the choice of vocabulary: the use of colloquial language; including slang of that epoch; metaphors; repetitions; comparisons; paranomasia; puns or play on words; citations; etc; and the dialogues with some Afro-Brazilian religions and concrete party; and so forth