Prática de ensino de literatura e música popular: ritmo e poesia na construção da identidade cultural de jovens subalternizados

Abstract

The research announced here pertains to the contemporary mode of apprehending literary materiality through multimodality, a term understood in this study as works characterized by the presence of more than one semiotic code. Specifically, it focuses on popular music, often disseminated through song: a hybrid and popular genre endowed with lyrics, rhythm, melody, and harmony. Thus, all elements of music are taken into account in the proposed analyses regarding the investigation of the educational processes underlying literature teaching, specifically focusing on peripheral youth in their socio-economic-cultural context, considering their human development and the construction of their cultural identity. In this sense, this research aims to contribute to both decolonial and post-colonial discussions in a school context. It intends to explore how the association between rhythm and poetry present in literary-musical objects is also responsible for the human and cultural development of peripheral youth in contemporary times and for their formation as socially active individuals, under the aegis of moral and ethical values proclaimed in the social fabric. In other words, it investigates how literature teaching associated with the experience of popular music influences the trajectory of the cultural formation of the peripheral individual, as well as the construction of their identity. Therefore, the methodological proposal of this research is anchored in a qualitative perspective, in alignment with the proposal of biographical project workshops, with adaptations. As a result, the entire investigative process allowed for giving voice to subalternized discourses in the realm of literature teaching in Brazilian schools. This is done with the aim that the practice of literature teaching is reflected upon based on the critical contribution of its juvenile target audience.