The brazility of Maria Bethânia: analysis of the anthropophageal aesthetics of brasileirinho

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The present study, based on Bibliographic Review and Text Analysis, presents a brief analysis of Brazilianness in Maria Bethânia's music from the historical record of Brasileirinho (Quitanda/Biscoito Fino, 2003- 004). Themes such as the cultural anthropophagy and the relationship between music and the cultural identity of the performer since its appearance in the Brazilian music scene in 1965 are proposed. As a theoretical contribution, the concept of identity, studies on Anthropophagy stand out (ANDRADE, 2017), the aesthetics and language of Maria Bethânia's musical work, in addition to the interpretative analysis of the texts. The intention is to present a debate on the construction of the National Identity based on the featured work, according to the precepts of Brazilian modernist authors, creators of the Week of Modern Art (1922). The three great matrixes of national identity - African, Indigenous and European - form the horizon for the analysis of songs, arrangements, poems, pictures and interpretations recorded in the work, in order to contribute to the reflection on cultural relations, hybridism (CANCLINI, 2010 ), in critical evaluation of European standards, in force in Brazilian society, which, consequently, marginalizes the traditional and native identities.

Keywords: Anthropophagy. Hybridity. National identity. Contemporary brazilian music.