Ecos tropicalistas em Chico César: reflexos oiticiquianos nas canções.

Abstract

In this study we try to observe approaches from the tropicalist perspective at the work of the musician Chico César, especially in the lyrics of some of his songs, in which there appear tropicalistic reflections with strong influence of the work of Hélio Oiticica. To make this reflection, we start with a brief look at the Anthropophagic Manifesto, seeking to highlight the production of Brazilian art itself with its characteristics, that is, the struggle for a Tupinikin identity in the world artistic context. This incursion served as a route to another point that permeated this research, the aesthetic of the tropicalist movement, which emerged in the 1960s provoking a stir in the artistic world. Characterized by being a colorful, libertarian and critical cultural movement, another look at Brazilian culture. In this context, we highlight the work of Hélio Oiticica with different possibilities for the artistic work reinforcing the principle of freedom of creation, thus breaking with the preconditioned behaviors of art and establishing a new way of making art, now based on the transformation of everything in function of an artistic result. Thus, his challenging positioning against the inequalities experienced by different social groups and their pre-established concepts permeates his work ,especially "Mama África". Seven songs by Chico César were analyzed (Benazir; Mama África; Respeitem meus cabelos, brancos; Folia de príncipe; Sirimbó; À primeira vista e Mand’ela) with the general objective of identifying and analyzing tropicalist echoes in Chico César from the perspective present in the oitician works. In order to justify our research, we are theoretically based on Aguiar e Silva (1996) Borges, (2015) Candide, Silvestre, (2016), Cerejeira, (2012) Couto (2009) Diniz, (2007), Favaretto, (2016), Filgueira, (2010), among others. The results show that Chico César approaches tropicalism and, consequently, Hélio Oiticica, developing his work with characteristics of the movement and criticizes situations of fragility in some social spheres, this is very clear in works such as "Mama Africa" and "Cuscuz Clan".