“O que me importa é não estar vencido”: a contracultura no Brasil da repressão e análise da obra de Secos & Molhados.

Abstract

The present work presentes the research carried out on the theme that guides the study, in this case, the theme is about the movement of social contestation and demand through culture, wich is the Counterculture of the 20th century, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. Researching about the concept of Culture to enter the concept of Counterculture and the philosophy of the movement, the work has a wide range of bibliographic references, through scholars in the areas of History, Social Sciences, among other. In addition, it describes the main actions of the Counterculture in Brazil and in some other countries, having as a source of research, the musical albums of 1973 and 1974 by the Brazilian band, Secos & Molhados. Analyzing the production of records and the lyrics of the songs as an object of History, in order to legitimize the hypothesis that in the creations of Secos & Molhados we find a example of the Counterculture of Bazil. Finally, it addresses the singer Ney Matogrosso as one of the influential artists who addressed the issue of sexual freedom, a topic so dear to the Counterculture at the time.