Segue, segue, segue...não pode parar! uma pesquisa etnomusicológica sobre as vivências músico - sociais em uma roda de samba

Abstract

This is an ethnomusicological research focused on musical experiences among a samba group at the "Recanto do Samba" bar, emphasizing the marks of black resistance. Located in Bagé, a town from Southern Brazil, the bar is managed by "Tia Iza", a seteventy-four years old black woman who is also part of the group, which she takes part as a singer almost every Sunday evening, with other musicians. As an ethnographic study, I tried to attend and intensively participate in the samba group and describe all the fieldwork activities in diaries as a way of registering the experiences and reflections. In this work, I (1) reflect on my “initiations”, including playing a percussive instrument as an apprentice at the group; (2) present a musical description of the musical practices among the group and narrate what I understand as musical features, including notes about the density of Tia Iza's musical and social trajectory; (3) present the samba group dynamics and interplays that may indicate their own “rules”, including ethnic-racial conflicts and frictions. It is possible to infer that such “regulations” and specificities presented on musical and social practices involved at the Recanto do Samba group are related to African/afro-Brazilian worldviews by manifesting their resistance through the maintenance of afrodiasporic cultures.