Quadrilha junina e políticas culturais: aspectos históricos e simbólicos para a manutenção de uma manifestação cultural brasileira

Abstract

This work traces the studies of the June celebrations, especially of the "Quadrilhas Juninas", with the general objective of analyzing the historical and symbolic aspects of this cultural manifestation. The Quadrilha Junina is a Brazilian manifestation with movements from the center to the rural and, later, the opposite way, adapting itself to its cultural exchanges of the different epochs and aesthetic-political challenges for its continuity in the cultural scene of the country. We give special attention to the Northeast region of Brazil, with a case demonstration of the Arraiá Lagoa Azul in the municipality of Jijoca de Jericoacora (Ceará/Brazil), in which the author presents his memoirs and memoirs of interviewees for this work. It concludes with analysis of cultural policies and how the Quadrilhas Juninas got some attention from the public power, which continues to be inefficient in actions with more continuous purposes.