A canção na Amazônia e a Amazônia na canção

Abstract

The song is formed by a fabric of sounds, words, images and rhythms that stimulates the experience of beauty and propitiates the construction of knowledge. Through these threads and webs, listening to the song makes the imagination flow, opens streams of aesthetic perceptions, and raises the thought to the highest degree of poetic sensibility. Chains of emotional reactions are opened in each context of listening. The dialogue between the songwriter, the song and the listener form a web of meanings. The principles of complex thinking are essential references for understanding this process. They sharpen the capacity for understanding the dialogical circularity inherent in knowledge and its relations. To think of complexity requires the assumption of coexistence between existential dimensions that are apparently disconnected, such as reason and emotion, body and mind. The poetic thinking of the songwriters and the representations and transcendences of their songs are subtleties that only the multidimensionality of art can offer. Precisely for this reason, a thinking capable of perceiving the complex whole of the human being is indispensable for the understanding of the intercurrences that affect the relations and associations between the real and the imaginary, and the rational and the poetic. Based on the assumption that all the complexity inherent in man and his connections with life and world fit poetically in the song, this research proposed to reflect on the Amazonian conception present in the poetic thought derived from the sonority and the poetic text of the songs produced in the Amazon. The study presupposes the existence of a man, a place, a context and an imaginary created to reflect on their interconnections. Nature, man, society and the contours of its cultural complexity in the Amazon are the scene of the reflection presented here. From the work and the artistic trajectory of the composers Adelson Santos and Celdo Braga and the analysis of the lyrics and the musical constitution of their songs, we sought the understanding of the perceptions and the created imaginary about the region, through a study that considers the production process, the creative process, the incidental musical genres, and the types of poetic-musical narratives proposed by the songwriters. The set of information, ideas and concepts about the song, the Amazon and the complexity of their interactions aim to subsidize the understanding of the poetic thought created on the Amazonian culture through music.