“Acorda amor!”, olha a “Roda viva”!: uma breve análise de duas letras de canções de Chico Buarque sob a perspectiva teórica da literatura de resistência

Abstract

The historical period of the civil-military dictatorship, which took effect in Brazil from 1964, was marked by censorship. Any brief study of this period proves that our recent past is full of artistic manifestations, including popular songs, which in many cases carry the memory and history of those hard years. After all, music as a tool of resistance, along with the other arts, played a fundamental role in opposing the Military Regime and the censorship that was inherent to it. Based on this context, the objective of this essay is to analyze two songs by Chico Buarque, named: “Roda viva” and “Acorda amor” - from the perspective of the theoretical notion of “literature of resistance” (BOSI, 2002); (BONICCI; GONÇALVES, 2005); (DALCASTAGNÈ, 2012); (NÓBREGA, 2015); (SILVA, 2020). Therefore the analysis will start from both the investigation of the historical context and the references of the resistance literature that presents itself as a tool of denunciation in politically unstable times showing, through the relationship between the Brazilian military dictatorship and the resistance encompassed in these two songs by Chico Buarque, the literature’s movement that promotes the act of resisting. In this way, we hope to contribute to the advancement of research that recognizes an interconnection between Literature and History, aiming to reinforce not only the approximations between these two areas but the existence of a complementary action between them, that becomes essential for the construction of the senses.