CONSTRUÇÃO DISCURSIVA DA IDENTIDADE DO GAÚCHO NA CANÇÃO DE LUIZ MARENCO: UM ENFOQUE DIALÓGICO

Abstract

Considering the importance of reflecting on the different gaucho discursive images, this study aims to analyze, from a dialogical point of view, aspects of the discursive construction of gaucho identity in a nativistic music CD titled Identidade [Identity] by Luiz Marenco, the famous gaucho singer, seeking marks therein regarding the constitution of Rio Grande do Sul‟s typical subject. Specifically, it aims to verify, in the CD‟s songs (a) discursive cues pointing to identitary fragments which, although may come from irreducible and even conflicting singularities, converge in the dialogical construction of the typical gaucho subject, (b) how the dialogical construction of the gaucho identity happens in the songs interpreted by Luiz Marenco, seeking to perceive how the already-said is responsively reflected and refracted and (c) what is the influence of this dialogical construction on Rio Grande do Sul typical subject identity formation. This research is based on Bakhtin‟s dialogical theory of discourse (Bakhtin 1998, 2003; Bakhtin/Volochinov, 1995), which has contributed to the reflection concerning enunciation and discourse, including human agents‟ discursive-identitary constitution, and dialogues with the field of cultural studies (Hall, 2000; Silva, 2007), that contribute with reflections regarding the relationships of cultural and identity processes. As for the methodology, five songs of the CD Identity are analyzed which were chosen in accordance with representative recurrent marks of Rio Grande do Sul subjects, in dialogue with each other and all the CD songs. In this process, we describe marks in lyrics and melody utterances that constitute the songs, which ground the ways of representing the typical gaucho subject and consequently her identity construction. As we consider identity formation as directly linked to language, the ways of representing identity manifest themselves by means of discourse, which establishes dialogical relationships with other discourses, in a process of sense construction in which interlocutors have an active participation. In this context, we conclude pointing to the need of rethinking the concepts on the current representation of the typical gaucho subject by taken their identity as something in constant displacement, that is, in constant construction