“Cante poeta o que sinto e não posso cantar”: a cantoria nordestina como meio de expressão cultural do sertão paraibano (1973-2000).

Abstract

This study's purpose is to analyze northeastem singing or cantoria as a cultural expression of the people of the Sertão Paraibano between this years of 1973 and 2000, problematizing theirs modes of political representation: pé- de -parede and the festival . Analyzing the discourses produced on the singing over time, its cultural a dynamic and the experiences of the subjects of this tradition, we aim to show that the singer represents and identity of the country through the improvise oral poetry of the singers. In the literature, we talk with authors like Foucault (1996), Zumthor (1993), Ginzburg (1987) Muniz (2006) and Ramalho (2000). As a methodology, we refer to the speeches of the singers and apologists through the history now, just as we use photographic and related images. The singing emerged in the Serra do Teixeira-PB between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At that time, there were the first songs of wall-to-wall of which you have news, that spread by all the Northern interior. In 1973 , takes place in Cajazeiras-PB the first song festival of the Paraíba Sertão , was a watershed in the urbanization of the singing that completes the cycle in the decade of 2000.