Performance e transmissão musical no Coco de Zambê de mestre Geraldo

Abstract

Coco de Zambê is one of the specificities of the coco genus, and, according to research already done, occurs exclusively in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. In Coco de Zambê by Master Geraldo only men can dance or perform the instruments beyond the fact of being formed only by members of the Master's own family. There are currently some researches on this specific type of coconut, such as Cyro Lins (2009) about the Coco de Zambê de Sibaúma, Jaildo Gurgel da Costa (2011) and Teodora Araújo (2006), more specifically the group studied here, but dealing with aspects related to dance (ARAUJO, 2006) and other musical works of the family of Mestre Geraldo (COSTA, 2011). In our research we observe the context in which the music of Coco de Zambê by Mestre Geraldo is made so that we can also understand its musical practices and realize how these practices and the context itself are affected by the music itself. Another aspect studied was the musical transmission within the group, aiming not only to understand how the processes of transmission of musical aspects per se happen, but more broadly of their cultural values. In this way, it was sought to understand the musical practices occurring within the group from the notions of "music in culture" and "music as culture" (MERRIAN, 1964), in order to understand how the context influences the structuring of music produced by them how to understand if the context itself is not delineated from the music they make. It is hoped, therefore, that this research may contribute to the construction of knowledge about the most comprehensive genus of the coconut, and more specifically, by providing information and analysis on the musical practices of Coco de Zambê by Mestre Geraldo on the maintenance and changes in these practices and the transmission of knowledge as the central axis for these processes.