Imagens do espaço urbano e da violência em canções da música popular

Abstract

This brief study aims to establish a relationship between urban space and violence, and the way in which this relationship is present in the lyrics of popular music songs. Lyrics from four songs were selected to compose the corpus of analysis: “De frente pro crime” (1975), by João Bosco, “Veraneio vascaína” (1986), by the group Capital Inicial, “Periferia é periferia” (1997), by the group Racionais MC's, and “Minha alma” (1999), by the group O Rappa. We start from the concept of violence, as proposed by Tânia Pellegrini as “the use of force to cause physical or psychological harm to another person”. The study showed that the main aspect in common between the four songs is the criticism of the potential for violence in the Brazilian urban space. Thus, such issues can also be understood in the key of the concept of resistance, as postulated by Michael Foucault and, respectively, Alfredo Bosi.