Singing someone else’s pain: Zuzu Angel’s story and the song as a historical testimony in Chico Buarque’s work

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i4.2038

Keywords:

Brazilian Popular Music, Historical testimony, Trauma, Collective memory, Military Dictatorship.

Abstract

In this article we discuss the aesthetization of historical testimony in two songs by composer Francisco Buarque de Holanda: Angélica (1981) and Pedaço de mim (1978), both inspired in the story of Zuzu Angel, a Brazilian fashion stylist whose son was killed by the government during Brazilian civil military dictatorship in 1971. Zuzu Angel died in a mysterious car accident in 1976. We cite authors such as Benjamin, Agamben, Halbwachs, Seligmann-Silva and Blacking to discuss how a popular song can be a peculiar way to express the nature of the trauma and to bring to light specifi features of an alleged testimonial truth.

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Author Biographies

  • Amilcar Almeida Bezerra, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro Acadêmico do Agreste, Núcleo de Design e Comunicação. Caruaru, PE
    Doutorado em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense. 
  • Patrícia Barcelos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informação e Comunicação em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ
    Mestrado em Psicossociologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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Published

2020-12-17

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 4 (2020): Dossiê Comunicação, Saúde e Crises Globais

Section

Original articles

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Singing someone else’s pain: Zuzu Angel’s story and the song as a historical testimony in Chico Buarque’s work. (2020). RECIIS, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i4.2038