Haciendo sonar el candombe: letramento literomusical no ensino fundamental

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze an original course material through the experiences among elementary school students from Southern Brazil, specifically froman Uruguayan-Brazilian border. The material unit centralizes the Afro-Uruguayan Candombe from the “literomusical literacy” concept and from the understanding of musical practice as a powerful cultural immersion possibility when it comes to language learning. It was all planned to work in nine periods of forty-five minutes each, and experienced between June and October, 2017. The action research was the methodologic approach for these purposes, involving the participation of a class of thirty students of the eighth year in a Municipal Public School in the city of Bagé-RS/Brazil. All the experiences derived from the literomusical literacy perspective paved the way to access the relation between the individual and group competences of the students on discourse comprehension mediated by music in their context readings. Along the practical activities and the interaction played in the Spanish language, the students’ language competences and abilities were studied in an easy manner, having as a consequence of such experiences the composition of an original lyric to an instrumental Candombe theme song. From the engagement stimulated by the narratives and provoked by the literomusical production challenges, a rewarding student engagement has been noticed towards the didactic unit. The course material approach suggests that it is feasible to maximize the use of the Spanish language several sorts of classrooms that that can be related to the concerned proposal. This is said because studying/experiencing a musical genre is, also, studying/experiencing a cultural environment. Therefore, being music significant in the cultural environment of the Candombe, consequently the language in which this rhythm is originally expressed was studied/experienced at the same time.