Entre repentes e sertões: presença, mudanças e continuidades da cantoria de viola no Seridó potiguar

Abstract

The theme that covers this work is the singing of the viola in the sertão of the Potiguar Seridó, since it analyzes its presence in this territory, with an approach in the city of Caicó-RN, delimiting its changes and continuities throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. It also verifies the changes in writing about singing in works by folklorists, in addition to analyzing the set of sociocultural relations, rules and instruments that are used within viola singing, which determine its functioning. The theoretical debates are based on concepts from Oral History (ALBERTI, 1996; FERREIRA, 2012), Cultural History (BURKE, 2005; PESAVENTO, 2006; CHARTIER, 2002) and Popular Culture (ARANTES, 1987; CERTEAU, 1994), as well as dialogues and analyzes that depart from the concepts of genealogy, writing history and sertões. The sources used are oral, digital, literary, hemerographic, folkloric books and academic texts, as well as images and various documents present in the personal collections of poets from the municipality of Caicó. At the end of the research, it is clear that: viola singing has been active in Seridó since the second quarter of the 19th century and Caicó was the place where singers settled after the creation of the Violeiros do Seridó program in 1963; writing about singing changes, as do statements about singers; and there were changes and continuities in the face of technological demands.