Samba de roda da Bahia: pra gente aprender

Abstract

This book that reaches the reader is the result of research on Brazilian popular culture, and in a special way, it includes stories of Samba de Roda located in the Recôncavo Baiano region, geographically delimited in the municipality of Santo Amaro da Purificação. Such research took place between 2000 and 2002 and resulted in the Master's Dissertation entitled Popular Culture in the Recôncavo Baiano: tradition and modernization in Samba de Roda. I was linked to the Graduate Program in Letters and Linguistics, associated with the line of research Theories and Criticism of Literature and Culture, a field where I look for joint approaches not only under the point of view of the epistemological turn at the end of the 20th century, involving post-colonial and decolony studies, as well as contributing to make Santo Amarense cultural identity visible, based on the music, dance and existing memories both in the compositions and in the rhythms that capture this cultural expression. In 2005, Bahian samba de roda was recognized by UNESCO as an oral and intangible heritage of humanity. And it should be noted that the results of the dissertation would contribute to the sources used by IPHAN, during the elaboration and theoretical foundation that subsided the Inventory/Dossiê 4 – Samba de Roda do Recôncavo Baiano, resulting in the inclusion of this cultural expression as a cultural asset of humanity, subject to public policies for the preservation and maintenance of traditions that date back to the history of Brazil and Bahia.