Bate coxa em Campina Grande: história social do forró na cidade do "maior São João do mundo" (1950-1985).

Abstract

This study aims to understand how music Northeast, specifically forró, the dance was considered as social and cultural practice of "low" ascending to every society Campina Grande. From there we want to understand the relationship between the dance and the social formation of Campina Grande during the period corresponding to the second half of the twentieth century until 1985, two years after the creation of "The Maior São João do Mundo”. Accordingly, we seek to understand the ways lovers composed forró scenarios in neighborhoods in the city of Campina Grande. Analyzing the social experiences of the people who attended the liners, environments marked by culture, habits and customs of ordinary people coming from the countryside or small interior of Paraíba. Adding to that, we present the dynamics of sociocultural agents, whether institutional or not, as essential mechanisms for the dissemination of this historical process of popular music to all social strata of the city. Finally, we analyze the social perspective on music and aesthetics of the musical work as seek to understand the evolution of social music and dance forró inserted in the process of "modernization" and urbanization, dialoguing with individual trajectories of some of forró artists "Campina Grande" in rise of forró. To compose the sources, we use vast corpus of documents comprised of primary and secondary sources, such as newspapers of the time, interviews, magazines, criminal cases and musical compositions in order to compare them to give greater credibility to the issue raised in the historiography presented. Thus, in English social we appropriate of historiography as theoretical-methodological support of our object, having as fundamental historians Edward Palmer Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm and Raymond Williams.