A transformação do samba em referência identitária e locus discursivo da brasilidade

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze how various social actors contributed to the process of nationalization of samba and its transformation in identity reference and discursive locus of Brazilianness. Based on the constructivist perspective of Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies, we understand that the samba, while referential identity, is under permanent material and symbolic construction, mediated by language and power, being shaped and negotiated daily, as well as cultural identities in general. This musical genre of predominantly black and working class array was born regional, in Rio; through negotiations, trades and interests between the hegemonic and subaltern classes, transformed itself into national-popular. Intellectuals, the Estado Novo ("New State", which lasted 1937-1945), the radio and the popular classes participated actively in the invention of samba as a tradition of Brazilian culture. Using discourse analysis as methodology, we intend to highlight the ideological embodiment of the nationalism in the Estado Novo period in compositions of exaltation sambas, subgenre that emerges in this context, specifically, to extol the country and narrate the Brazilianness.