Músicas norte-americanas de protesto: uma análise dialógica

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of studies carried out within Discourse Analysis in the Bakhtinian dialogical perspective and aims to understand the discursive voices expressed in thirteen lyrics of protest songs written in the United States from 1905 to 2014. For having admitted that text is not only a sequence of sentences but a communicative unit formed by interrelated language-subject-history, the approach applied to the object of analysis (which in this research communicates with the researcher) has demonstrated that it makes sense because of the social voices present on its verbal material. These voices belong to excluded groups, to religious discourses, to authoritarian rulers, to those who are in favor (and against) the war. These voices also denounce the omission that touches some, the prejudice that humiliates others and cause protest music to communicate interactions that go beyond the class struggle concerning the economic aspects of it but, in addition and presenting new categories of this struggle, have multiplied senses coming from and to the struggles, from and to the subjects and from and to the songs as the decades advanced. To apprehend the meanings of what is verbally enunciated through this chain of relations is becoming more and more necessary to studies that cherish a less dichotomous view of language.