Tom & Rosa

RESUMO

Este artigo tem três objetivos. Em primeiro lugar, busca analisar o papel decisivo desempenhado pela canção popular na composição do projeto literário de Guimarães Rosa. Em segundo lugar, pretende apontar, ao menos em parte, algumas das razões que ajudam a entender a afinidade do compositor popular brasileiro com a obra de Guimarães Rosa. Em especial, o artigo procura compreender o impacto que a leitura da obra de Guimarães Rosa imprimiu na sonoridade elegante e sofisticada das composições de Tom Jobim - sobretudo, nos dois discos autorais produzidos na primeira metade da década de 1970, Matita Perê (1973) e Urubu (1975). Por último, este artigo arrisca uma hipótese a existência de uma longa e venerável trama de vínculos entre a literatura e a canção popular brasileiras. (AU)

ABSTRACT

The objective of this article is threefold. First, it attempts at analyzing the crucialrole played by the popular song in shaping up Guimarães Rosas literary project. Second, it aims at pointing out, at least partially, some of the reasons for the Brazilian popular composers liking of Guimarães Rosas work. The article aims specially at understanding the influence of the reading of Guimarães Rosas work on the elegant and sophisticated music of Tom Jobims songs mainly on his two authorial records produced in the first half of the 1970s Matita Perê (1973) and Urubu (1975). Last, this article advances a hypothesis: the existence of a long and venerable intertwining of links between Brazilian literature and popular songs. Because of very distinct factors, the borders between different territories which form literate tradition, written tradition, book tradition and the oral tradition of singing poetry have been systematically blurred by generations of songwriters, poets and writers who have produced a cultural repertoire typical of the country, by making themost surprising crossings between book and song, and between song and poem.At such borders a new way of identifying Brazilian culture is born. It is a poetic space in which a new form of expressing the country is produced, and also an original way of understanding Brazil the modern popular song. (AU)