Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VALTER SOUZA DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : VALTER SOUZA DA SILVA
DATA : 07/11/2025
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: defesa remota
TÍTULO:

FUNK: INTERDICTIONS IN MUSIC?

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Funk; Proibidão; Interdiction; Erotization; Discourse Analysis.

PÁGINAS: 194
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
RESUMO:

The thesis at hand is linked to the area of concentration Studies of Linguistic Processes, within the research line Studies of Discursive Processes of the Graduate Program in Linguistics (PPGL) at the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Cáceres Campus, MT, Brazil. The theme under investigation is the discourse of funk music, specifically the discourse of funk proibidão (prohibited funk). It emerges from the interest in understanding how this discursivity operates under different conditions of production and circulation—periphery/favela versus non-favela contexts. As a controversial discourse, it is constituted within the social tension between the permitted and the forbidden, and it is subject to censorship and interdiction in certain contexts.

The theoretical framework of the Franco-Brazilian Discourse Analysis supports the analytical method, drawing primarily on the writings of Michel Pêcheux and Eni Puccinelli Orlandi. The historical memory of funk is grounded in the works of Micael Hershmann, Hermano Paes Vianna, Mylena Mizrahi, Adriana Carvalho Lopes, Juliana da Silva Bragança, and Adriana Facina. The concept of the erotic body is approached through the theoretical elaborations of Christophe Dejours.

The study aims to analyze the discourse of funk proibidão with the specific objective of understanding the dynamics of discursive processes that might relate the discourse of funk proibidão to that of pedophilia; to describe the mechanisms of interdiction derived from elements of funk proibidão discourse that restrict its circulation in broader social spaces; and to identify the conditions that enable the circulation of meanings within restricted spaces of circulation.

The corpus, extracted from a set of 124 songs by 13 renowned funk artists active between 2010 and 2020—Danny Bond, Daíze Tigrona, DJ R7, MC Carol, MC Daleste, MC João, MC Katia, MC Livinho, MC Orelha, MC Pedrinho, MC Xuxu, Mr. Catra, and Valesca Popozuda—consists of enunciative excerpts situated within the semantic region of the erotic, as part of the discursive formation of funk.

The analysis of these excerpts leads to an understanding of how funk proibidão operates within the favela as partially detached from the moral constraints that restrict, in language, the realization of meanings avoided by the hegemonic class—those who hold the state’s ideological apparatuses or legislative mechanisms that censor certain forms of saying.

It is provisionally concluded that the act of interdicting funk proibidão is deeply linked to discursive processes that criminalize the poor, Black, favela-dwelling population. Such interdiction outside the favela would not occur if funk were embraced by the white dominant class. The association of funk with the crime of advocating pedophilia finds no grounding in the reality that the funk cultural movement exposes—the social locus neglected by public security policies. Instead, it is blamed for revealing a reality that is by no means exclusive to the favela.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 73774008 - PAULO CESAR TAFARELLO
Interna - 592.690.301-72 - ROSIMAR REGINA RODRIGUES DE OLIVEIRA - UNIFESSPA
Externo à Instituição - 842.897.837-91 - MARLON LEAL RODRIGUES - UEMS
Externo à Instituição - WEDENCLEY ALVES SANTANA - UFJF