Quadrilha Junina Babaçu: processos folkcomunicacionais, identidade e representações culturais

Abstract

Throughout the last century the media have advanced in different social spheres, flourishing diverse phenomena. The insertion of popular cultural manifestations in the media field brings to the fore antagonisms between tradition and modernity and the construction of our identity representations. In this study the relationship of media visibility with our cultural and regional identity is problematized. In general, the objective is to analyze the representations of the popular culture of the Northeast when it is placed as a media, economic and tourist product. Specifically, we demonstrate the social and communicative practices that are manifested in the Juninas gangs when they are introduced to the television scene. With the use of the ethnographic method we seek to show that these processes are mechanisms for the construction of the cultural identity of the Northeast region. In this sense, we question the appropriation of the popular manifestations by the media, analyzing how the Junino groups remain within a scenario increasingly restricted to consumption and spectacle. Based on authors such as Marques de Melo, Benjamin, Lima, Chianca and Albuquerque Junior, we approach the scene of popular festivals in the Northeast and their constant reconfigurations in urban and media spaces.