O desencanto da era Collor sob o olhar da banda Legião Urbana (1989 – 1992)

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the social, political and cultural period between the presidential election of 1989 and the impeachment of President Fernando Collor de Mello (1989-1992) – otherwise known as Collor Age – from references contained in the album “V” (1991) by Legião Urbana band. The purpose is to understand how the election and the controversial economic measures of the first Brazilian democratically elected president after the military regime, affected the cultural production of that period. The work of Legião Urbana, with a cultural element that composes reality, provides a specific bias to the socio-political situation of period and portrays the succession of events and their impact on young people's daily lives. Thus, theoretically and methodologically guided by the concepts of representation in the sense presented by Roger Chartier (2002), and performance within the meaning of authors such as Simon Frith (1996) and Thomas Turino (2008), we aim to understand the extent to which these songs provide a dialogue with the national situation, observing lyrics, music and performance. We also investigate how the field of cultural symbolic products interacts with political reality and how much it says about it.