Das letras de música de forró à leitura das normalistas: sujeito mulher, identidade e estereótipo.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the constitution of woman figure in forró lyrics and the reading of normalists regarding these songs. Therefore, the study was based on the theoretical perspective of reading presented by the Discourse Analysis (DA) of French line, from Authors like Pêcheux (1997), Robin (1977) and Courtine (2006). It also resorted to Foucault ideas, especially regarding the concepts of “Wills of truth” and “Relations of power” and the Cultural Studies, by Hall (2006), Bauman (2005) and Silva (2000), to understand the questions related to identity constructions. The structure of this research is based on forró lyrics and reading activities done by students involving the lyrics. That been said, this research is, in the first stage, documental, and, in the second stage, a research-action, since it intended, based on a theoretical referential, perform an intervention with a third-year class of High School at Escola Normal in Campina Grande. Hence, the following objectives were set up: to identify the wills of truth related to the woman subject in the forró lyrics; to compare the female image expressed in the root forró lyrics and in the electronic forró lyrics; to consider the thought of the normalists regarding the speeches which constitute the woman figure in the lyrics in question and to compare the reading done by the normalists before and after the proposal of intervention performed by the research. Based on the data, it was possible to realize that, in the first stage, the female figure is constituted as an object of sexual pleasure in both kinds of forró. However, in the root forró, women are considered creatures destined for wedding, for family life, as a trophy to be won by men. On the other hand, in the electronic forró, women are considered easy sexual objects to be used and discarded. This study also allowed the identification of stereotypes that depreciate the identity of the female figure in society. In the second stage, the conclusion is that there is identification in the student readings with the form-figure presented in the lyrics from the previous stage, related to the discursive construction of the woman identity. Also, it was observed that, at first, the reading of the normalists was based on narrative abstracts in relation to decoded materiality, without existing a critical positioning. After the research intervention, it was noticed that the students give more attention to the construction of images and roles designed to the woman in the lyrics and, as a result, showed critical attitudes about this discursive genre.