SIDEWALK CHANGE: NARRATIVES ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN MARÍLIA MENDONÇA’S SONGS AND THEIR POSSIBILITIES FOR HISTORY TEACHING
History Teaching. Marília Mendonça. Music. Violence. Workshop-Class.
This study aims to investigate the multiple forms of violence against women represented in Marília
Mendonça’s songs, which are here approached as historical sources, through a pedagogical
proposal for History teaching. The proposal focuses on problematizing narratives about women’s
experiences that make it possible to identify situations of violence present in the song lyrics
through a Workshop-Class designed for 9th-grade students in Elementary School. This proposal
brings together theoretical categories such as music, sensibilities, women’s history, and the history
of the present, with the intention of understanding songs as documents capable of revealing
silences, forms of resistance, and different experiences of ordinary women. Methodologically, this
study adopts a qualitative approach based on documentary analysis, as well as the development
of a pedagogical Workshop-Class model inspired by the approaches of Barca (2011) and Squinelo
(2024). It is expected to contribute to historically situated interpretations, broaden the debate on
violence against women, encourage the critical reading of musical/sound sources, and strengthen
students’ civic education.