Entre memória e esquecimento: os antigos carnavais de rua da cidade de Juazeirinho-PB (1950-1970).

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the old street carnivals in the city of Juazeirinho- PB, among the decades of 1950 and 1970. Its history with the festivity begins in 1918, five years after its foundation as a city. From then on, the inhabitants of “Joaseiro”, as it was called until then, They begin to hold carnival celebrations annually. With their own dynamics, they had the main blocks: Bobos na Folia, Satan no Frevo, Zé Pereira's block, Os Caçadores and the block children's As Bonequinhas, among other dynamics particular to the city, such as the organization of families, the carnival figure of Zé de Aurora, the persecutions of the papangus, carnival corsos, the music bands and the social club JoazeiroClube. However, over the years, the practice of playing carnival falls into disuse, becoming little practiced in the city, going from being a practice traditional to oblivion. In this sense, based on oral reports and photographs from the time, we elaborated our narrative about this carnival past, in order to answer: Why would a Is the festival that was so popular today forgotten or little remembered? In this sense, our work has Cultural History as the main approach, as we deal with the scope of festivities, but also we make use of discussions about memory, orality and photography. Theoretically, we rely on the discussions about memory present in Jacques Le Goff (1990) and Maurice Halbwachs (1969). Antônio Clarindo Barbosa de Souza (2015), Maria Clementina Cunha Pereira (2001) and Roberto da Matta (1983) to think about carnival.