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Social, cultural and symbolic meanings in the path of the Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru and the historical problematic of the study of oral tradition\'s culture in Brazil (1924-2006)

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Author(s):
Cristina Eira Velha
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes; Tiago de Oliveira Pinto; Elias Thome Saliba
Advisor: José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes
Abstract

This research is the study of Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru\'s musical practice in its cultural, social and musical path, seeking to understand the constituent senses of its culture in the northeastern wilderness and the social and cultural relations established in the context of the brazilian\'s urban culture from the 60\'s. At first, we sought to understand the musical forms and the symbolic meanings of the Banda de Pífanos\' music in the context of origin in Alagoas and Pernambuco\'s interior, from 1924 to 1939, its cultural relations and its world\'s conception marked by orality. In a second step, we sought to reconstruct the cultural relations from the residence in Caruaru, between the 40\'s and 70\'s, in contact with the urban context, and its social experience from the 70\'s in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, when its music was inserted in media and music industry. Thus, we aim to reflect on the process of cultural exchange and the changes and continuities built in its practice and musical language, from its particular interaction with modern world, in a circularity process, in the brazilian\'s musical culture. By situating the object as a significant social practice of the oral culture and before its methodological specificities, it was necessary to develop an interdisciplinary approach based on the dialogue between the history of culture, the ethnography and the ethnomusicology. (AU)