The nation in custody in “As Vitrines”, by Chico Buarque

Authors

  • Carlos Augusto Bonifacio Leite Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Pedro Baumbach Manica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Vinícius de Oliveira Prusch Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i31p197-211

Keywords:

Popular song, Redemocratization, Dominance, Flânerie, Phantasmagoria

Abstract

Based on a suspicion towards the idea that As vitrines [The display windows] (1981), by Chico Buarque, is solely a love song, the present essay offers an analysis which centralizes ideas such as those of “vigilance” and “stalking” as a means of investigating the relations between aesthetic form and social process. The analytic movement conducted also encompasses a dialogue with some of the modern characters present in Walter Benjamin (1994), especially concerning the way they appear in the author’s reading of the sonnet To a passer-by, by Charles Baudelaire. At the center of this analytical framework, is the hypothesis that some tensions from the Brazilian redemocratization period are manifested in Chico’s song through the relationship between a person who passes by and another who follows them under neon signs and amongst products.

 

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2021-12-30

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No. 31 (2021): Literature and Music

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Leite, C. A. B., Manica, P. B. ., & Prusch, V. de O. (2021). The nation in custody in “As Vitrines”, by Chico Buarque. Revista Criação & Crítica, 31(31), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i31p197-211