Between Impromptu and Chalenges: from the cururu as a cosmovisionof caipira’s groups in the Middle Tietê’s region of São Paulo

Author(s)

Elisângela de Jesus Santos

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Araraquara. 2015-03-03.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara
• Defense date: 2013-07-05
• Advisor: Dagoberto José Fonseca

Abstract

The text of this thesis reunites the results and conclusions of the doctorate ethnographic research first entitled “The Liturgy of the People: cururu, a medieval songbook in the MiddleTiête’s region, SP” accomplished between 2009-2013 in the Social Sciences Post Graduation Program of the Faculdade de Ciências e Letras of UNESP, Araraquara campus, São Paulo, Brasil, under supervision of the Professor Dagoberto José Fonseca with the suport of the Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo, FAPESP. The text is articulated from the notion thet the paulista’s cururu, a impromptu singing also done as a chalenge between singers accompanied by the “viola capira” constitutes an identitary singularity of those caipira’s groups of the Tietê’s Middle, in the country region of São Paulo State. Based on ethnographic appointments, the text presents the paulista’s cururu as a form of cosmology of the studied caipira’s group, that articulates poetic and musical narratives that trigger ambiguous categories to compose metaphors that are expressed in the form of singing, memories, sociabilities, experience of the catholic religiosity, labor, veiled conflicts, knowledge production and popular leisure, as well as legacy practices from the rural world like the recaptured “mutirão” (a popular collective initiative) in urban peripheric contexts. The ethnography considers also the ethnic-racial, age and gender aspects, because the cururu is mostly done by old men. The contemporaneity of the subjects that do the cururu its understood through the cultural, technical, technological and midiatic appropriations employed to reproduce the cururu through historical time, as by dialogs established with the circus, the radio, the cinema, the phonograpic record, the TV and the internet by the legacies provided to other musical and literary productions, pointing out to the “cururueiros” the cururu musicians ... (AU)