Talking Pretty and Kicking Up Dust: Modernity and Tradition in Maracatu de Baque Solto of Pernambuco
2017; University of Texas Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.7560/lamr38205
ISSN1536-0199
Autores Tópico(s)Arts and Performance Studies
ResumoThis article looks at the dynamic relationship between modernity and tradition in maracatu de baque solto, a regional music associated with sugarcane workers in the Mata Norte region of Pernambuco, Brazil. Changes in the way the poet-singers (mestres) view their own practice and the history of their art form reflect transformations in the rural areas, innovation in techniques and approaches, and shifting dynamics between maracatu and its interlocutors. The maracatu community is currently negotiating complex and dynamic relationships with cultural programmers and entrepreneurs in which singers reconfigure their participatory tradition for presentational settings. Drawing on three years of ethnographic and historical fieldwork, I pose questions about the limits and possibilities of maracatu’s own strategic and unorthodox uses of the dominant discourses surrounding folklore and popular culture in Northeast Brazil.
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