A arte nos tempos da intolerância: a música como mecânismo de expressão social e a necessidade da garantia prática do direito a liberdade de expressão diante do contexto socio-político brasileiro atual

Abstract

Throughout the growth and development of society, the right to freedom of speech has always encountered obstacles to its exercise. In different places and times of history, rulers of different nations and empires who felt threatened used various ways to silence those who somehow sought the truth of the facts. This diversity of cases has demonstrated the increasing need to ensure respect for human minimum rights. Freedom of expression, a mechanism that enables the sharing and debate of thoughts, and the search for truth, even today, receives harsh repression in various parts of the world. The military dictatorship, a kind of authoritarian government known for the repression of the voice of individuals, already experienced by the Brazilian people, used any means necessary to remove from their path artists, journalists and other individuals that the state considered a threat. Unfortunately, even with the constitutional impediment of censorship and the change in the country's social and political paradigms, it is still possible to observe the abusive action of the state in disrespect of fundamental rights by the Federal Constitution of 1988. Music, theatre, cinema, and the press constantly occupy the target position for repression, not just through criticism, but of the personal performance of the state organization. Not only for amusement, or an escape valve from chaos, music is also the way many groups take to make themselves heard, so that the world knows and understands their needs, desires, fears, and discontent. Thus, it is necessary to ensure that the right to freedom of expression is exercised, due to the constant abuses suffered by this right. For the construction of the present work, the use of the hypothetical-deductive scientific method, and descriptive research based on bibliographic research, proved to be more adequate and complete, in addition to access to periodicals, news and personal reports by artists.