Para viver em estado de poesia : retalhos do amor e canções brasileiras

Abstract

Love is a puzzling subject, because it is always scaping from many of the definitions that language tried to impose it, even though it was created by language itself. Writers, poets, musicians have all used this feeling in order to write their texts, which never reach any truth about love. Orlandi (1990) states that being inside the lover’s discourse is to experience an unnecessary speech, as if finding ourselves as an enamored individual makes us lose all the words. Only a process of meaning the feelings and emotions makes it possible to translate love through the language – in a failed way, always, because love does not exist as a solid object. This master thesis é another attempt to that: to write about love. It works on developing a compilation of seven essays exploring subjects around the loving experience, which are divided in two parts: the first one presenting a theorical discussion, and the second an analysis of a brazilian song that matches with the topic debated. Here, a song is seen as a musical piece formed by melody, harmony and lyrics, existing only on its performance, since, as states Finnegan (2008), the voice is not just a conductor of musical and literary texts, but part of the song’s substance. The discographic research made for the writing of the essays stems from songs of the 1960’s to the 2020’s, selecting one MPB song for each decade. Therefore, the loving experience subjects looked into the songs and the theorical framework – such as Barthes (2018), hooks (2021), Bauman (2021), Suy (2021) and Dunker (2017) –, are lovely love, definition of love, words of love, longing, jealousy, body and desire, and the end of love – all coming from an approach that mixes sociology, psychology, linguistic and literature. The texts are written as an essay-letter, a theorical debate which derive from soliloquy, as defines Barthes: someone that speaks lovingly about himself before the loved one, who does not speak. Beyond that, the final product of this loving songs patch is its own performance – is giving a new sense to the songs through the voice, in a live performance. Hence this compilation might be seen as concert program – presenting the setlist, discussing the topics inside the music and studying the possibilities on signification of love via brazilian popular songs.