TEXT 1:
Owner of a distinctive, harsh voice (even if considering the conspicuous Armstrong mannerisms), Elza Soares is one of the most swinging samba singers. Having appeared in 1959 with the samba "Se Acaso Você Chegasse," Soares always had her artistic career complicated by her personal life, which certainly impeded her of enjoying a more widespread popularity. Having gotten married at 12 and having lost three children who died of hunger, she later became the wife of Garrincha, one of the most genial soccer players ever, and also a chronic alcoholic. The peak of her career was in the '60s, with albums like O Máximo em Samba (1967). In that decade she had several hits like "Boato," "Edmundo" (a version of "In the Mood"), "Beija-me," "Devagar Com a Louça," "Mulata Assanhada," "O Mundo Encantado de Monteiro Lobato," "Bahia de Todos os Deuses," "Palmas no Portão," and "Palhaçada." In the '70s, she still had success with "Salve a Mocidade" (1974), and "Malandro" (1977, this song launched Jorge Aragão as a composer). But it wasn't enough to prevent her from facing huge economical adversities and, at the same time, she was being systematically turned away by recording companies. Trying unsuccessfully to develop a career abroad, she returned to Brazil in 1994, poor and depressed. Finally, she was rediscovered in the '80s by the younger generations of Brazilian rockers (Os Titãs, Lobão) and MPB artists like Caetano Veloso, having been awarded with a Sharp Prize award as the Best Samba Singer of 1997. Her life was depicted in the musical Crioula, which had several songs written specially for her by Chico Buarque, Chico César, Nei Lopes, and others. In 2000, she was appointed Singer of the Millennium by London's BBC. Despite all the critical events of her life, Soares continues to challenge her destiny, performing shows in every venue available.
TEXT 2:
There was once a day when black slave women that were put up on the auction block would have their blouses ripped open by their owners for prospective buyers to see the suppleness of their breasts. How interesting that now, although the auction block looks a bit different, women are ripping their own blouses open and selling themselves down the river. The raping and using of black women solely for sexual purposes during slavery ultimately led to the sexualization of black women in all forms of media. But as the pattern of history shows us, the representation of black people in media has a direct correlation with how we are viewed by society.
TEXT 3:
A Carne
(Elza Soares)
Composição: Seu Jorge, Marcelo Yuca e Wilson Capellette
A carne mais barata do mercado
é a carne negra (5x)
Que vai de graça pro presídio
E para debaixo de plástico
Que vai de graça pro subemprego
E pros hospitais psiquiátricos
A carne mais barata do mercado
é a carne negra (5x)
Que fez e faz história
Segurando esse país no braço
O cabra aqui não se sente revoltado
Porque o revólver já está engatilhado
E o vingador é lento
Mas muito bem intencionado
E esse país
Vai deixando todo mundo preto
E o cabelo esticado
Mas mesmo assim
Ainda guardo o direito
De algum antepassado da cor
Brigar sutilmente por respeito
Brigar bravamente por respeito
Brigar por justiça e por respeito
De algum antepassado da cor
Brigar, brigar, brigar
A carne mais barata do mercado
(Focus on the image of Elza Soares)
Body expresses our lives and our beliefs. I think that use of body is a good way to express our feelings and indignation. Elza Soares uses her body and her experiences to show and to create conscience on people. And music is a way that affects many people in the same time. She is very clever, because she makes use this. She adds her body + her experiences + music and expresses her afraid, her desires and her revolt about racism. Using these tools she can feel free and show us that she doesn’t accept the prejudice of a passive way. I think it’s good and many people learn and reflect on life when other person show their indignation using funny tools like music.
ResponderExcluirI think the body is the first representation of who we are. Anyone express themselves with their posture or choices about their hair or their clothes, for example. So, the power of body is sure. This way, I feel strongly that we express also our history like our race history. If in Brazil, we have that black people were slave and represented dirty and poor people, we will see this form in all black people. Other prejudice is about sex. We learnt sex is something dirty and ugly. But it is a human necessity. Certainly we associate both features and associate black people like something for using and getting rid of in the same way of sex. Because we need, but they are dirty things. I think we must take awareness about all this features and try to change. We can begin in ourselves, looking for our beliefs.
ResponderExcluirI agree with Paula and I`m going to add more one thing: we associate slaves with force too. With this meaning we can think black people are strong and powerful. In other words, they are people who withstand many things. So, what is the symbol which can express our spiritual strong? What is the patron saint from our country? She is “Nossa Senhora Aparecida”. She is black. I think we can associate something positive too. We chose someone who expresses our force for representing ourselves. And for this we used some black person. In my opinion, it can be another way to see this prejudice. And more one time it reinforces the power of body for us and how we can use these representation.
ResponderExcluirPresently, the body is regarded with first representation of the person. The people judge the others regarding first their appearance, and then, if the judgment was good, they want to know more about the person.
ResponderExcluirThis situation is very wrong,for simple people don´t worry about their appearance, they only worry with their intelectual appearance.But, in other vision, we can be use it for to get many things,for example, a job.
Thus, this situation is a knife of two edjes. We can be use the body for to get things or we are judge for it (well or bad).
The power of body have importance for differents genders. The Man's body has not been studied on their relationship with time and environment, but the woman's body is studied and we have many information about sexuality, menstruation, contraception and fertility. The men were a long time prepared to war and hard work.
ResponderExcluirMore than that, the body is responsibility of self person. The ‘bad body shape’ is consequence of individual responsible. It can have intervention by medical profession also aesthetic. The human body have been war camp against age. The body is seen as existential basis of human interaction in a given period. People live according themselves perspectives life.
The body could be culture object. “As our most immediate natural symbol it provides us with a powerful medium through which we interpret and give expression to our individual and social experience”. But, we rarely know give voice to our body. This is one of the reasons why we are often surprised when we see ourselves in videos or listen to our recorded voice, both of which seem rather strange because we are not used to see ourselves the same way as we are seen by others.
Tavvs Micael Alves
The body is our calling card and knows the important impact that it causes, especially in the first printing, in areas: social, emotional and professional.
ResponderExcluirIt is an important tool to present to society, problems and suggestions to improve it as a whole. Elza Soares do this well; she uses the music (one form of body representation) to show their will and indignation in the face of social problems such as racism, for example.
Therefore, knowing how to use the body is a challenge to promote an overhaul in the viewpoints of society, in order to break down prejudices.
I think society sees the body and color to represent the people.
ResponderExcluirThus, black people were and still are marginalized by society. Black men are thieves and black women are prostitutes.
The music of Elza Soares it is clear, black-skinned people has no value. This is a historical problem, social, political and economic very serious.
So we should fight to change this prejudiced society.
The body represents ourselves more than we imagine. For the common sense, body express only our external image, showing features like age, a weak or a strong physical, gender and color. However the body has a deeply and important meaning in people’s life. It’s not only a expression of our external side, but also our interior side, like our feelings, personal characteristics and emotional condition.
ResponderExcluirLike this the body could be explored to express our feelings and most of it ourselves. That’s what Elza Soares does, using music and body together to show her indignation about the prejudice associated with the image of the black people in the Brazillian society. Therefore the body can be used as a way to represent us politically.
Vinícius Galvão Wakui
The human body is an amazing machine. Actually, at present, people use to criticize each other just because of their shape, beauty. Without a shadow of a doubt it is wrong to do that, but unfortunately it is the reality. The predictions that we have need to be in the second plan because there are really interesting people that do not look nice at first imprection, but after knowing them you realize that they can do awesome things.
ResponderExcluirI think, for Elza Soares the body is used to express people personality. But the society sees the body with a way to difference classes of people likes gender (woman or man), the color (black or white), rich and poor; no like a form of expression. The society impose to the people the appropriate behavior, the appropriate way of dress, etc., based on the classes as the person pertain; and when some people use the body for try express him self with another way, they are judge because of the prejudice created for the rules of the society. So, Elza Soares use her music and her body with a provocative way to express it, to try fight against the prejudice and the classes’ discrimination impose for the society, principally about the black people.
ResponderExcluirIs true that my body is a reflection of my opnion, my way of life, my position on the society, but at the same, the body became ato dominate, or be dominated, to expose or to hide Is not just the black body that is depreciated, in general the female body is saw like a instrument to market, a good merchandising. Look in Brazil, in comercial's beer, put the women and explore their beautifull bodies, like if only the man drink a beer, simplely ignorate the ample market of women that drink. I remenber one a fact, when a i was in BSB, two years ago, in meeting, that called "Corpus Crisis" about the female body at this moment in the society, therae was a girl without one leg, she tell us her history and said at the end: "No matter wht kind of body you has, but what you do with it. I never forget this and is this way that I think we must to reflect about our bodies and what are you doing with them.
ResponderExcluirBody ís physically representation than we are, our characteristics,expressions,etc.Through our body we can demonstrate how we are, if we are happy or sad, tired, distressed!We can know the personality a person through the body, but is not always possible to know the people for their looks, for the body.
ResponderExcluirI understand in the text that Elza shows the passion for music through the body.
Aluno: Wellington Gonçalves de Oliveira
In the society, our body always means something. It causes is the first print that we causes when we meet someone in first time. This good-look of our body have the power of predict if we will know people easily. In a society that believes more in likeness(color of skin, kind of hair, eyes color, shape of boddy) this kind of first sign is very important sometimes the most one in social interaction
ResponderExcluirThe body is the perfect creation of God. It is the synthesis of the expression of life, used in different forms. Some people use their body to express their feelings or say something, but there are those that mistreat the body, they put it in different situations, and some of them are dangerous like using drugs, prostitution.
ResponderExcluirAccording to the text, the body has been used as an expression of fight, since since many people have preconceptions about the ,color, religion or ways of life. But I do not want to focus on this bad side, but I 'd like to affirm the capacity of the body to interact with the environment . And I have the hope that in the near future the intelligence in our body will lead us to a higher sense of fairness and justice in our society.
Our body shows to everybody how we are.. And who we are.. what we like.. Because.. what you dress, and how you make up.. this tell a lot of thing about ourselves..
ResponderExcluirAnd a lot of people use theirs body to make a manifestation to call the attention of someone, or maybe, of everybody..
It´s because of that, we need to consciouness about who we want to be and what we want to do.. Our body and our behavior have a big power, that´s why we need to be careful..
For example, Elza Soares use her body to make a manifestation contrary to the discrimination whith black people..
The body nowadays has a large significance in several respects. Through this music Elza Soares wants to show how the body of a black person is seen, the prejudice that exists by society.
ResponderExcluirBut this prejudice isn't restricted only to black people but also many people who don't have a perfect body, that is, the appropriate standard.
The body expresses what the person is,it can use for comunicate,for work, at last expresse.But long time the body was seen as only an object, for example in the slaves, slaves were so recognized by the force of your body at work, and the woman slaves had the body as object sexual.Now, the body is more valued, but many still use it as an object, selling her body for money!The body seen as an object is a mistake because it is a divine construction and should be valued
ResponderExcluirThe boky is so imortant to us, it is our instrument of life. The body is the reflex of our emotion. It is your position in the society what is a pity, because we can't choose our body whem we came to the world. Our society ate judgement and they judge us at the first impression based in our body.
ResponderExcluirI think that the symbolic significance of the body as a metaphor of social relationships suggests that we can explore the representation of certain types of bodies like a way to understand the inherently political process of representation itself.
ResponderExcluirWe should understand the process of stereotyping as an effect of power - as a discursive strategy that attempts to establish particular subject positions as fixed, often degenerate types, as a way of legitimating social hierarchies and inequalities. It is important then to view the process of representation as a primary site for the construction and constitution of identities, collective and individual, rather than merely being a secondary reflection of already formed social identities. It is therefore also a point at which the attempt to secure dominant relations may be resisted and challenged.
Our body is our representation for others, they see us through the body. If someone is a woman or man, black or white, fat or slim, society sees this in different way, there are different means for each one kind of body.
ResponderExcluirElza Soares is a black woman, and was poor. Because her skin color she could suffer discrimination, and because she is woman too. We still live in a sexist and racist society. But now, she use her body, her image and her voice, for discuss about this.