This article aims at describing and analyzing the social representations of love within brazilian rock from the 1980s. 222 brazilian rock LPs recorded and released between 1981 and 1990 were analyzed. From an initial corpus consisting of 2074 recordings, 999 lyrics made reference to love relationship (48,16 % of total). Two analysis procedures were used: 1) Lexical Analysis (using the software ALCESTE) of the corpus (999 lyrics) and, 2) Content Analysis of a sample (Eₒ= 5%) of 286 lyrics that are part of this corpus. In the Lexical Analysis it was possible to identify two classes (Paisagem and Vou te dizer) that allowed the articulation of the 09 thematic groups resulting from Content Analysis (Na pele, A paisagem, Ela, A luz, As sombras do amor, Só, Movimentos, No coração, Na cabeça). This articulation was identified as the organizing principle of Social Representation of love in the corpus analyzed.
love; social representations; brazilian rock; 1980s
