Família Pacífico Musical: Trajetória de uma família negra na música de banda em Nova Iguaçu

Abstract

This research aims to highlight the social relevance of the Pacífico Family as central figures in the musical schooling process within Nova Iguaçu. Represented initially by their ancestors, Belmiro and Leodora, the black family came in the early twentieth century, a historical period of post-slavery, to reside in Santa Rita, one of the urban suburbs of Iguaçu, on the outskirts of Vila de Cava and Tinguá, in the Baixada Fluminense region. Their children and grandchildren learn music and build their professional career through band music, taught in the local evangelical church, and one of the instructors, the father of this researcher, served as an incentive for them to join the ranks of the Brazilian Army as military musicians and there achieve patents from soldier to officer. It will also address the social and cultural contribution of this family to the historiography of Iguaçu, as well as the importance of the professional rise of black people through music. The present investigation focuses on important issues of this family, especially how they arrived in the lands of Rio de Janeiro from the mining town of Leopoldina with their children and settled in Iguaçu lands during the height of Rio's citrus culture. The research also contributes to the school, military and evangelical music field, highlighting the use of music as an element of professionalization in Brazilian Army music bands, where a portion of the Pacific reaches patents of musician officers as instrumentalists and band masters, highlighting the Brazilian black social visibility. We will analyze the importance of extensive musical learning to other residents of this peripheral community, neighbors who still reside in the same region as their ancestors and descendants, this researcher and the role of this researcher's father, analyzed as subjects of the research.