Performance voco-musical na obra de Luiz Gonzaga e a construção da identidade cultural nordestina

Abstract

This work addresses the issues surrounding the cultural identity image of the Brazilian Northeast, focusing on a pluralized view of cultural symbols established within the musical work of the ernambucan artist Luiz Gonzaga. It observes the sociocultural events that accompanied Luiz Gonzaga's rise in the media, as well as the theoretical impositions that present cultural identity, aiming to understand how this cultural identity is perceptible through Luiz Gonzaga's work. To this end, we will review the bibliography of Luiz Gonzaga and briefly examine the album covers of the artist's works, analyzing the elements that compose Luiz Gonzaga's image on the record covers. We will approach Paul Zumthor's theory (2005) on vocal performance studies and the contributions of Ruth Finnegan (2008) regarding performance related to song, under the considerations of Luiz Tatit (2012). We will explore issues of cultural identity through the studies of Bhabha (2013), Canclini (2000), and a more focused approach on the ortheastern people according to Albuquerque (2011), to better understand Luiz Gonzaga's musical work. We will discuss the trajectory from the modernist movement—specifically addressing anthropophagy—to the opening for a view of the Brazilian Northeast (people and culture) mediated by Luiz Gonzaga and those who created this Northeastern identity imagery with him, represented in this work by the composer Zé Dantas, and those who revere him in their songs, dialoguing from the studies of Favaretto (2021) on the composers of the Tropicália movement.