Abstract
The universe of Brazilian popular music is full of passionate elements, but the genre that used the passion as style was the samba-canção (in English, literally “samba-song”). In this paper, based on semiotic notions, we analyse the passions in the discourse of this musical genre, trying to understand how the passionate sense effects in its composition are elaborated. In this regard, guided by A. J. Greimas renowed essay De la colère, we made an excerpt consisted by the songs As rosas não falam (1976), Volta (1978), Quem há de dizer (1972), Atiraste uma pedra (1958), Vingança (1972) e Castigo”(1978). When observing passional courses, they serve as strategy to perform a reading of that musical genre. In brief, we work with the passions, which determine the passional course of revenge, inserted in the cholera course, in order to reveal the treatment provided to them in samba-canção’s compositions.
Keywords:
Discourse; Semiotics; Popular song; Passions; Samba-canção