"Condenados a viver do que cantar": o discurso dos/sobre o trabalho de musicistas em Alagoas

Abstract

In this work we propose to perform the analysis of the discursivity of Djavan materialized in the song “Alagoas”, released in 1978, whose sense effects put into play explain the challenges for which Alagoan musicians need to submit so that they can make history, find work and stay alive artistically. In the song, the discursive subject, through the conditions of production of the discourse of the music “Alagoas”, triggers memories that make us reflect on the discouraging factors with which the musician needs to deal so that his professional practice can be effective. The corpus of the research dates back to the position of the discursive subject facing the challenges found in Alagoas to be able to stay alive as an artist. The question was a paradox: “he had to die in order to live”. We take as a theoretical and methodological basis the French Discourse Analysis from the theoretical reflections of Michel Pêcheux. It is in the Pecheutian Discourse Analysis the necessary foundation to grasp the meanings of the discourses produced by Alagoas musicians during the constitution of the state’s professional musical scene.