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

2014; Editora da Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Eduem); Volume: 36; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4025/actascilangcult.v36i3.23826

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Vera Helena Gomes Wielewicki,

Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

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.