Uma análise literária da tensão entre masculinidades na letra da canção

Abstract

This article aims to analyze and discuss the configurations of masculinities expressed in the lyrics of the contemporary Brazilian song "Suporto Perder", taking into account its literary aspect. The investigation, which is a qualitative research (MINAYO, 1994) of bibliographic nature (GIL, 2012; MARCONI; LAKATOS, 2003), mobilized theoretical references that thematize studies on gender (SCOTT, 1995), the concepts of hegemonic and non-hegemonic masculinity (CONNELL; MESSERSCHMIDT, 2013), the way it can be thought of in the Brazilian context (HONÓRIO, 2012), relations between literature and music with an emphasis on song (OLIVEIRA, 2020) and the poetization of Brazilian popular music focusing on the literary aspect of song lyrics, which is constituted by the use of literary resources in its composition (RENNÓ, 2003; CAVALCANTI, 2008). The analysis and discussion of the lyrics show that a tension that occurs between the non-hegemonic form of masculinity of the lyrical self and the form of hegemonic masculinity of the interlocutor to whom it is addressed is represented in it. This tension is built esthetically through the use of literary resources that materialize its poetization while emulate, in the expression plane of the lyric, this tension between forms of masculinities under which it is built. It is hoped that this article will contribute to researches that promote dialogues between studies on men and masculinities and Brazilian music, as well as to the study of dynamics involving masculinities that are at stake in Brazilian society and have gained more evidence in public debate in recent years