O poeta que viu a terra ardendo e cantou a esperança: abordagem sociorreligiosa de algumas canções de Luiz Gonzaga.

Abstract

The main scope of this dissertation was to show Luiz Gonzaga 's musical and poetic role, at the same time, poetic and prophetic - his voice, his stage performance, his costumes, his accordions. Art, through which, singing the subalternity and suffering that were realities of the people of their region, gave them, however, a sense of hope and not of punishment. In this sense, some songs were selected from what was known as "The King of Baião" and his texts were compared with texts of some representatives of biblical prophecy, identifying that religion was the trace of similarity between the prophets and the northeastern poet of the Brazilian “Sertão”. Our research has concluded that the mystical experience, the sacredness of religious symbols, rituals, belief in a sustaining creator, sustainer, holder of power over rain, sun, forests, plantations, animals and humanity itself and everything that exists, are present in the life and songs of the singer, as they were in the life and words of the prophets of the Judeo-Christian tradition.