O radiojornalismo esportivo de Campina Grande: uma análise a partir do arquivo pessoal do cronista esportivo Joselito Pereira de Lucena (1950-2011).

Abstract

As a research objective, I sought to analyze the sports radio journalism of Campina Grande by understanding the time between 1950 and 2011, period in which most of the most significant changes happened in this segment of the local radio media. It was necessary to investigate the local sports radio journalism as a constitutive radio segment in the social fabric of Campina Grande, where I based myself mainly on the contributions of Sandra Pesavento and her works that have cities as background, because thinking about such radio segment is to reflect on its interaction with the city, the dynamics between its social agents and their sociopolitical and cultural plots in its surroundings. To do so, I took as research sources a series of personal documents - chronicles, diaries, diaries and photographs - produced, selected and kept by Joselito Pereira de Lucena, one of the most active sports chroniclers in Campina Grande, working in radio between 1950 and 2011. By “preserving the traces of his own activity”, as suggested by Sue McKemmish (2013), Joselito Lucena ended up providing a series of clues likely to be problematized in the light of History. In his personal archive, it is possible to perceive signs of various social relations and cultural dynamics raised in front of the practice of sports - with greater emphasis on soccer - and its dissemination in Campinas radio, object of our spatial and temporal cut. In addition to the chronicles, diaries, journals, and photographs found in his personal archive, I collected a set of interviews with fans, chroniclers, and listeners of the programs that comprise the indicated time frame. We understand that the methodology of Oral History, as Bosi (2003) thought, has the necessary tools for us to read these dynamics and, as Roger Chartier (1990) points out, the “games of representations”, both agencyed by Joselito Lucena and by his listeners, seeking “a possibility of perception of how a social reality is constructed, in other moments or places, through delimitations, divisions, and classifications”. It was possible to trace a path between Campina Grande at the end of the 1940s, when radio appeared in the city, and to go through the decades that followed, observing the emergence and consolidation of Campina Grande's sports radio journalism, the dynamics between radio professionals and the population, and how sports chroniclers, such as Joselito Lucena, appeared and became part of the fans' lives, in the case of Joselito Lucena, becoming a monument man, a concept based on the readings of Le Goff (1990). Taking such documents as sources to understand such relations motivated this initiative facing the exercise of “making history”, problematizing them to operate a narrative that aimed to understand the history of sports radiojournalism in Campina Grande, from the personal archive of the sports journalist Joselito Pereira de Lucena and how he and his listeners represented this period lived by them.