This paper departs from the following assumptions 1) music is a prominent part of the soundscape (SCHAFER, 2001) and likewise, the soundscape interferes with compositional processes and the development of the aesthetical taste, 2) pieces of music broadcasted in the media are constituents of everyday life, since music itself produces habits and models of behavior. Referring to these suppositions, this text intends to analyze some pieces of musical repertoire which in a certain extent represents Brazil as a country, through their governments and presidents. For this purpose, I will analyze the soundscape of the period concerning the late twentieth century, when Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were presidents. I believe that particular features in media songs might engender a network of signs (sometimes discreet ones) which could stamp its marks in culture in a very special way. It should be stressed that such approach seems not to have been subject of careful study. An analysis of these discrete elements could contribute to understand how social dynamics of cultures occurs, beyond the stereotyped and naive approaches.
soundscape in Brazil; popular songs and musical memory; song and musical semiotics