"Campina Grande se veste com as cores da emoção e se mostra com a cara da alegria": práticas do espaço e das artes de amar na festa da micarande.

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the practicion space and the arts of love Micarande of revelers who attended the festive axé blocks, between the years 1990 to 200, at Campina Grande city. Thus, based on analysis of the newspapers: Jornal da Paraíba and Diário da Borborema, oral testimony with several individuals involved in the festival, publicity material available from the Department of Tourism Event and City Hall and the Historical Museum of Campina Grande, we prepared three chapters, called blocks. Micarande discussed how to practice space and affective relationships producing meanings of the ephemeral, the multiplicity of contingency, the momentary as a contemporary phenomenon. We refer to the three chapters of Blocks, so the first block and present the historical construction of Micarande space and the various styles of festive blocks. In the second block we discussed the new settings of carnival costumes and love in the emotional relationships - stay and flirt Micarande of the revelers. And in the third block, we propose to discuss how the relationships are loving, affectionate and lived subjectivized between genders and identities of the subjects micarandiantes within blocks of festive axé in the Campina Grande city. In the preparation and analysis of these blocks were established theoretical and methodological discussions grounded in concepts of the following authors: Certeau (1994), referring to discussions on the concept of space practiced; Ferreira (2004) and Santos (2005) that deal with Carnival; Justo (2005), Rieth (1998), Bauman (2004), Costa (1999) who argue about the affective-loving sensibilities in contemporary, Louro (1996) and Araújo (2008) to discuss body, Hall (2006) that discusses the concept of cultural identity in postmodernity, Carvalho (2010) and Scott (1995) with readings and discussions of gender relations.