Abstract:
This thesis presents the results of a bibliographic research on music as a factor in the formation of identity and looks especially at the youth in the Cariri region of Ceará. In this investigative framework one perceives that the “stylized ‘forró’” or the “electronic ‘forró’” is gaining ever more attention among the adolescents of this region. The words of the songs studied stand out because of the depreciation of the feminine gender, instigation of alcohol consumption, among other themes which are targets of protests and criticisms of many authors in their books, articles, theses and dissertations. The study of the collected material related to the analysis of the local context, configures this paper which perceives, at the end, that there is a proven relationship between music and identity, and that the human person can be influenced in their values and principles and manipulated in any phase of life, above all in infancy and adolescence. Upon investigating and tracing out a summarized profile of the general context of the Cariri region of Ceará, significant elements were identified which relate music to the formation of identity and based on this, meanings and reflections were established about the results obtained and proposals are sought based on the data encountered. Having as one of the theoretical basis Zygmunt Bauman, this paper names the current forró compositions as “liquid music” which are distant from the Luiz Gonzaga model and stand out for their fluidity regarding the success of the singers, the time of the auditions of the songs (descartability) and stand out because of the messages which trivialize the love relations and some values, ideas and concepts which are important for the base of humanity.
