O imaginário do amor romântico na canção midiática: mapeamento dos elementos simbólicos do amor romântico no pop-rock internacional e brasileiro.

This essay brings a map of the romantic love imaginary in the international and Brazilian pop-rock songs, from 1950's to 2000's. The analysis is based on the mapping of symbolic elements that emerge from pop and rock hits in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom in the same period. The theories used are: Gilbert Durand anthropological concept of imaginary and Roland Barthes textual analysis. The method used is the mapping of romantic love imaginary in the selected songs from the identification of symbolic elements responsible for the "starting place" of meanings. Based on the Durand classification of images regimes, it is realized an analysis of these elements. The conclusion shows a map of the romantic love imaginary in pop-rock songs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]