A conveniência da cultura popular: um estudo sobre pluralidade de domínios, danças devocionais e a ação dos mestres no Vale do Paraíba

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, André Luiz da
• Orientador(a): Mira, Maria Celeste
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mediação cultural; Cultura popular; Lógicas de ação; Teoria da ação; Modernização; Moçambique
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Cultural mediation; Popular culture; Logic of action; Action theory; Modernization
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3312

This text examines the action of popular masters of devotional groups called moçambique and congada which exist in Vale do Paraíba, state of São Paulo. Their action has been under certain changes in the scope of recently adopted public policies on culture and the growth of the regional market for tourism and entertainment, which directly bear upon the groups led by such masters. These circumstances demand tactics in order to intercede in a plurality of domains which imply different logic of action. They show how cultural policies, the celebration of diversity and the search for cultural gratitude of popular actors affect cultural mediations which take place among groups of traditional popular culture in the region. It is argued that masters use tactics to access and leave the new domains of action in order to seize them, thus escaping new restrictions and alternatives and becoming actors of a contemporary cultural production in its hybrid characteristics, both plural and ambivalent. This imparts the analysis of the result and the appropriation of public policies from the popular producer's point of view. There is an attempt to understand the strategies of popular masters and how they deal with mediators of the popular cultural production sphere. The approach of this investigation is the ethnographic interpretation of the interests and strategies of the actors under study, with the help of other disciplines, mainly sociology. The analysis tries to specify how the actors built their relations between their concrete devotional practices, the local culture and the global processes of ressignification of culture. Through an empirical survey situations which could show the relations between different worlds of action were registered. Two interviews were carried out with each of the selected seven masters. Many moments of informal conversation improved information and the triangulation with documents made possible a strengthening on the quality of collected data. It may therefore be inferred that the context in which the groups were generated and the pressure of present circumstances occur in directing the changes of meanings and practices in the production of traditional popular culture in this region. Tradition, which until then was restrained to the interior of the popular-catholic devotional sphere, has been increasing evermore its universe of influence and adherence. This steady increase results from the prizing of traditional popular culture within the scope of re-emerging public policies turned to popular culture and the use of traditional goods and the legitimacy provided by the appropriation of the industry of tourism and mass media