Pais e filhos aprendendo música juntos: a experiência em um grupo de extensão em práticas vocais coletivas

Abstract

This study was aimed to comprehend the aspects and movements of musical learning of parents and children in a collective vocal practice group with the family and music learning as the central thematic. The coursework had the extension group of vocal practices from the Federal University of Pampa, in the city of Bagé, as its empiric field and it was divided in two groups: the adults and the child-juvenile. My concern, while a researcher in training, was born of the meeting between the research field and the possibility to comprehend the learning process, opening the eyes of parents and children that learn music in the same context. The study is structured within the approach of qualitative research, at the Music Education field, chez a sociological perspective. At this stance, observations of the vocal practice group and interviews with parents were made. The narrative of the interviewed families revealed the importance that music has with the social, cognitive and educational formation of its children, indicating the desire of maintaining them at the vocal practice group. The families also revealed educational process built into the family routine, involving musical references for the children and the construction of music taste, attentive to the diversity of ways that children are learning music. At this point, this study intends to contribute to the revelation of musical socializations aspects at family, expectations related to the study developed at the extension group and prospects into continuity at musical learning, supported by the studies of Bozzetto (2012; 2015), Setton (2002; 2005; 2015) and Souza (2004).