Era uma vez um homem e o seu tempo : relações de identidade, memória e melancolia de resistência em Belchior

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the relationships between the concepts of identity, memory and resistance melancholy in the literomusical discourse of the singer and composer Belchior. It is considered that the work of this cearense artist highlights the way in which it was given the process of identity construction of the subject in face of the context of political repression occurred during the period of the military dictatorship (1964-1985). Besides that, it is observed the author's constant interest in narrating the subject's trajectories, also from his own experiences as a migrant, which involves the effects of displacement and uprooting in a Latin American society immersed in the paradigms of (post) modernity. The present study seeks to analyse, using bibliographic and documentary research, marks of memory registered in Belchior's oeuvre as a form of interpretation, indispensable historical reading to the process of elaborating the past and, therefore, of all individual and collective identity. For that, we rely on the theoretical contributions of Joel Candau (2011), Paul Ricoeur (2003; 2007) and Theodor Adorno (2008). Following this, melancholy emerges as an irrefutable feature of the human condition and will be seen here, through the theoretical framework of Jaime Ginzburg (2010) and Cibele Silva (2018), as a determining factor of the subject's critical, creative and resistant act in Belchior. Starting from a perspective that considers the verbal, musical and performance dimensions of the song, being supported by authors such as Costa (2001), Tatit (2012) and Finnegan (2008), the research includes the analysis of the songs “Fotografia 3x4” and “Velha roupa colorida”, from 1976, and “Conheço meu lugar”, from 1979, in order to expose the melancholic, resistant and engaged character of the author's artistic work