ESTUDO DA RELAÇÃO HOMEM-NATUREZA NA OBRA DE LUIZ GONZAGA: UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO À EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL.

Traditional environmental education has not been effective in transforming man's relationship with nature towards ecological balance. This paper aims at exploring the meanings of elements of nature within in the music of Luiz Gonzaga, to understand the man-nature relationship established by the man of the Brazilian northeastern semi-arid. For that, 10 songs of Luiz Gonzaga's repertoire were selected and analyzed through the dialogical theory/analysis of the discourse, according to Bakhtin, taking into consideration the extraverbal situation of each statement. It was revealed that the repertoire of Luiz Gonzaga has elements of nature with relevant meanings that contribute to the construction of a closer relationship between the Brazilian northeastern man and nature. Therefore, we intend to present the use of music as a methodological resource, as an alternative to traditional teaching, for that artistic expression is a great vehicle of meanings, a language capable of reaching the subjectivity of the students, thereby, facilitating the internalization of relevant meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]