Discursive identity representation of the favelado in the funk song "Sou favela", by MC Bruninho and Vitinho Ferrari

Abstract

The present research proposes to analyze the discursive identity representation of the favelado in the lyrics of the funk “Sou Favela”, by MC Bruninho and Vitinho Ferrari. To accomplish this purpose, we base ourselves on the theory/method of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in the dialectical-relational approach, more specifically in the three-dimensional model (Fairclough, 2001). We also start from studies on discursive representation (Ferreira, 2010) and on identity (Woodward, 2014). Based on the three-dimensional model, we use the categories of analysis discursive practice, text and social practice: in discursive practice, we analyze production, distribution and consumption processes; in the textual practice, we analyzed the lexical items present in the song that point to the identity representation of the favela; and in social practice, we analyze the ideological and hegemonic bases of the identity representation of the favela subject in funk music. At the level of discursive practice, we realized that all individuals involved in the music production process come from peripheral communities, from the producers (DJ DG and Batidão Estronda), the music interpreters (MC Bruninho and Vitinho Ferrari), to the platform channel of streaming that was released (GR6 EXPLODE) and that weaves a network of practices and meanings about the representation of being from the favela for the consumer public. In the textual practice, lexicons and their semantic relations showed that the favelado is represented as a racialized, marginalized and economically poor subject. Finally, in social practice, we found ideological values ​​of aporophobia and racism, as well as the capitalist hegemony and white supremacy in sustaining the analyzed representation.