A Companhia Mariocas e o Tambor de crioula: cultura popular sob a ótica da retórica da perda

Abstract

This dissertation aims to observe the process of construction of the identity and cultural discourses of the Companhia Mariocas Tambor de Crioula. It seeks to analyze how the ideas of tradition and culture are constructed through discourses of cultural objectification, through a process of appropriation and reappropriation of collective cultural assets, having as paradigm the rhetoric of loss. Such a paradigm influences the aforementioned processes in a transversal way, both within the institutions that plan and execute cultural policies at the federal and state levels, and in relation to the small discourses that can be observed among popular culture groups by studying the case of the Companhia Mariocas. In order to do so, it seeks to identify the voices that make up the Mariocas' discourses, bringing to the discussion the historical context to which they are connected and the demands imposed by the environment in which they are currently inserted, observing both the defining issues of postmodernity and those represented by the pressures exerted by society, the State and the market. The Tambor de Crioula is also observed as a ritual, as well as the performance of the drum - from the point of view of the anthropology of art - as a mediator of collective desire, which highlights the representative values of the group