Resistência, negritude e performance de protesto de Gilberto Gil no documentário “Os doces bárbaros” (1976)
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2025-11-19
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Santos, Suelem Cristina dos
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This study analyzes the documentary Os Doces Bárbaros (1976), directed by Jon Tob Azulay, taking Gilberto Gil’s performance as its central axis in order to understand performance as a form of political and cultural resistance during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. The research investigates the relationship between music, performance, and audiovisual language in Gil’s work, considering the historical context of repression, censorship, and the persecution of artists, particularly the episode of Gil’s arrest in 1976. Drawing on performance studies, archive theory, and intermediality, as well as theories of laughter and Blackness, the study examines how Gil’s musical and performative repertoire articulates aesthetic and discursive gestures that confront policies of silencing and reaffirm Afro-diasporic culture. By highlighting the presence of elements from African-derived religions and the collective dimension of the group formed by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia, the documentary is understood as a performative archive that reinscribes Afro-Brazilian memories, knowledge, and cultural practices within the field of political resistance.
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Performance , Resistência , Negritude