Rock and drugs: multiliteracies and an aesthetics of violence for teenagers in school

Auteurs-es

  • Vera Helena Gomes Wielewicki Universidade Estadual de Maringá

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v36i3.23826

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critical literacies, pop culture, Mettallica, Guns N’Roses, high school education, identity development

Résumé

Current study discusses an approach of hard rock, in English, for high school students, from a multimodal perspective. The songs are analyzed in terms of their musicality and literariness and hard rock is considered a historically constituted complex cultural movement. The aesthetics of violence, present in the rock’n’roll scenario, specifically focused on the themes of drugs and alcohol abuse, is analyzed from the perspective of multiliteracies, for the development of teenagers’ critical education. The paper is theoretically based on theory by Lévy (2010), Kress (2000) and Kalantzis and Cope (2000) for multiliteracy concepts and on Walser (1993) for the criticism on the musical language. Songs by the USA rock bands Metallica and Guns N’Roses are discussed.

 

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

  • Vera Helena Gomes Wielewicki, Universidade Estadual de Maringá
    Associated professor at the Modern Languages Department at UEM, and at the Post-Graduation Program in Language and Literature (master and doctor degrees). Teaches literature in English and main field of research are literature teacher education, critical literacies and multiliteracies.

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2014-08-25

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Rock and drugs: multiliteracies and an aesthetics of violence for teenagers in school. (2014). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 36(3), 335-345. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v36i3.23826

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