A música como fonte de informação: o rock nacional dos anos 1980 e a realidade sociopolítica brasileira

Abstract

During the 1980s, national rock songs were widely used to express feelings and convey messages about everything that was happening in the country. Thus, they can be considered as sources of information about the Brazilian reality. The objective of this research is to analyze music as a source of information from the lyrics of national rock songs of the 1980s, verifying the information they bring about the social and political reality of Brazil. It was structured from a bibliographic research and an exploratory research. It was based on qualitative data, having, therefore, a qualitative nature. The theoretical part sought to conceptualize information sources and to show the existing types of sources. It was discussed how music can be considered an information source. The historical context of Brazil in the 1980s and what was national rock of the period were presented. For data collection two techniques were used: content analysis and the questionnaire. In the first, we carried out an analysis of the lyrics of the national rock music of the 1980s, from the bands Legião Urbana and Cazuza. In the questionnaire, a series of questions was applied to fans of the national rock music of the 1980s. As a result, it was obtained the types of information that these songs can convey, how this was perceived by people, and how Brazil and the songs of that time were seen by some people. It was concluded that songs can be important means to transmit the most different kinds of messages and information. In some cases they can reflect the thoughts or the needs of the population. For many people, the national rock of the 1680s served as a way to raise awareness of what was happening in the country at that time