Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture ISSN: 1983-4675
[email protected] Universidade Estadual de Maringá Brasil Gomes Wielewicki, Vera Helena Rock and drugs: multiliteracies and an aesthetics of violence for teenagers in school Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, vol. 36, núm. 3, julio-septiembre, 2014, pp. 335-345 Universidade Estadual de Maringá .jpg, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=307431657011 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Acta Scientiarum http://www.uem.br/acta ISSN printed: 1983-4675 ISSN on-line: 1983-4683 Doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v36i3.23826 Rock and drugs: multiliteracies and an aesthetics of violence for teenagers in school Vera Helena Gomes Wielewicki Departamento de Letras, Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, 5790, 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT. 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.