Re-signification of the memory of the city of Recife in the frevo lyrics of the conductor Nelson Ferreira

Abstract

This paper approaches the lyrics of frevo music as a document and it studies its relation with social and affective memory; therefore, it’s an exploratory and documentary research, whose main objective was to consider, from the frevo lyrics of the maestro pernambucano Nelson Ferreira, the relevance of the musical information for the reconstitution of Recife’s memory. To do so, we established as the corpus the musician’s songs and lyrics, recorded in two collections of the extinct Rozenblit records factory: O que eu fiz e você gostou... from 1959 and O que faltou e você pediu... from 1968, adopting the qualitative evaluation of Content Analysis method. Thus, the 39 frevos demonstrated, through four thematic categories, that the lyrics are a product of their time, but that they are also a product of the point of view and experience of a man in his time. This experience was then massified through the phenomenon of reproducibility of information and it was perpetuated for almost 100 years, repeating itself through the narratives of the songs that activate this memory when reproduced, bringing it into the present and diluting the individual memory, creating sound links.