Construções de gênero na banda do Imba de Bagé /RS : um estudo etnomusicológico histórico (1960 - 1976)

Abstract

This paper aims to present an ethnomusicological research concerned on gender constructions (MCCLARY, 2002) in a marching band during 1960’s and 1970’s emerged from a conservatory of music in Southern Brazil. Musical and social experiences are understood as memories and projects (VELHO, 2003) of the participants, mostly female students, conducted by a women teacher. The research began with archival/historical work (BACELLAR, 2008). Through information acquired by the archives, it was possible to contact former students, some of who participated at the time, leading to a net of interlocutors on the oral history perspective (PINSKY, 2008). The memories shared allowed to access gender constructions reproduced at the moment – a dictatorial one – by means of instrument x musician relationships, and understandings on “feminine” and “masculine” through embodied gender associations. However, the feminine play was not limited by gender submission, for they effected choices, creativity, innovation and music innovation. Therefore, the research discloses that the band became part of women’s agency and protagonism in their musical, social and historic realm.