Vamos montar uma banda? : um olhar sobre os processos de criação musical de crianças

Abstract

This thesis has as its theme the musical creation processes of children and has with the general objective to question and understand these processes in the context of a musical workshop. It derives hence more specific issues that are to know that musical aspects are involved, how children interact and organize themselves, and meanings children attribute to these aspects in the process of musical creation. Through a socio- historical reading, the course of this research included discussions of childhood, culture and language in conjunction with musical compositions that addressed different perspectives about the subject. Are fundamental concepts of this thesis, the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky and Walter Benjamin about creation and experience, as aspects intrinsic to the human. It presents a critical perspective to contemporary childhood to draw attention to approaches to the world of culture and music. In this sense, we discuss a music design that takes into account the social aspects articulated to music production, proposing a dialogue about musical creation between the fields of life , science and art. It present as main partners of this thesis : Solange Jobim e Souza , Manoel Sarmento and Rita Pereira on contemporary childhood ; Johan Huizinga and Gilles Brougère on the playful ; John Blacking on concept of music ; and Teca de Alencar Brito, François Delalande and Lucy Green, about children, music and music education. The field work was aimed at making a musical composition workshop, under the format of a popular music band , performed in a federal public school in the city of Rio de Janeiro , with a group of children between nine and eleven years. To dialogue with children , the perspective on alterity and dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin was adopted as theoretical and methodological support , as well as a research perspective without neutrality and research as aesthetics experience. As research findings, it is observed that the processes of creation of these children in the workshop are negotiated between peers, subject to its own conditions for its development and occur articulated with their musical experiences revealing child 's ties with aspects of culture. Highlights on this process also an integration of the activities to create, learn , play, and the motivations that realize this and suggest a unique relationship with contemporary culture. It emphasizes the importance of music creation activity as a place of sharing meanings and senses