Saberes do chão: criação musical no coco e na ciranda da Paraíba

• Ano de defesa: 2026
• Autor(a) principal: Sperb, Guilherme Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Música; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Coco; Ciranda; Criação musical; Paraíba; Etnomusicologia; Musical creation; Ethnomusicology; Creación musical; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::ARTES::MUSICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/37724

Coco and ciranda from Paraíba are musical traditions that, in addition to being collaborative social practices within communities, harbor ancestral musical knowledge shared territorially. The main objective of this work is to identify and analyze the processes, general dimensions, and specific aspects that constitute musical creation in the musical phenomena studied. Territorially, the work encompasses different performance contexts, from the Cariri region to the North Coast, passing through cities, quilombos, and indigenous lands. As a methodological basis, an ethnographic approach is used, with participant observation as the main investigative tool for identifying groups, masters, repertoires, and performative practices as a whole, seeking to understand musical knowledge in these traditional contexts. Bibliographic and documentary research complements the methodology. The study also discusses, within the ethnomusicological framework, the importance of ethical cooperation and practical contributions to the researched contexts, engaging with the field of collaborative ethnomusicology. The research trajectory, anchored primarily in ethnographic immersion, mobilized discussions about heritage, ethnic-racial identity, and reflection on the participation of the people and music studied in the contemporary cultural industry and phonography, pointing to different uses of the ownership of the creative musical vocalizations represented. Based on the identification and analysis of different creative processes, the thesis presents as its main conclusions the emergence of the inseparability of musical transmission and creation processes, where, in an adaptive poetics, the centrality of voice and corporeality unfolds into a performative authorship emanating from a musicality in transit, producing identities located as responses to the world. In its results, the work achieved the possibility of recording and analyzing the recent production of cocos and cirandas in the Paraíba territory.