A Era Vargas no pentagrama: dimensões político-discursivas do canto orfeônico de Villa-Lobos

Abstract

This work makes a discursive analysis of the orpheonic singing spread through Brazilian society, in the years known as The Vargas Age (1930-1945), taken as part of the music teaching established by the State and commanded by Villa-Lobos. The collective singing, with its national anthems and/or patriotic songs, was also created to great chorus groups performances, which used to take place in solemnities and public celebrations, promoted by government in civic dates and occasions. With the analysis, we emphasize this pieces contribution to the formation of an adequate citizen, according to the politic, economic and ideological demands of the State, by elucidating some political-discursive strategies and dimensions understandablein the textual and, in some amount, in the musical materiality. Theoretically, this work creates reflections about the enunciative and argumentative processes, always looking forward to finding conceptual subsidies to comprehend the discourse. Based on the social importance and on the semiotic complexity (lyrics and music) of the collectivesinging, during the period broached for this job, some relations with History and Musical Semiology references were also weaved.This Thesis has the goal, therefore, to contribute for a better understanding of the orpheonic discourses functioning in its context of circulation, besides allowing a critic to Brazilian musicological tradition and to official culture, which insist on an impertinent political approach of the relation between the State and Villa-Lobos. In summary, this is an interdisciplinary work from Discourse Analysis with others knowledge domains.