Cantigas de Capoeira de Mato Grosso do Sul: Currículos, Identidades e Poder

Abstract

This research arises from the interest in analyzing songs in the capoeira universe, investigating: how can capoeira songs produce identities at the same time as they tension power relations? To do so, we start from the reality of capoeira in Mato Grosso do Sul, which has its peculiarities given by the time and space of social interaction and relationships between subjects. The data collection was carried out using the lyrics of capoeira songs. In this way, we used three different cultural artifacts that bring the songs of Mato Grosso do Sul, being: A CD digitized on Youtube, on the page Projeto Memória Fonográfica de Mato Grosso do Sul, called 1st National Ladainha Festival, another artifact was a recorded CD in 2016 by the Camará Capoeira group and, finally, some isolated songs found on Facebook. As results, we can observe a sung environment permeated by power relations that tension themes such as violence, religiosity and codes of conduct/norms, as well as songs that bring cultural identities at the same time that they produce a capoeira with local characteristics that is not capoeira from Bahia, but rather, capoeira from Mato Grosso do Sul, with all its particularities given by the regional context. Furthermore, we observed that the pedagogy of capoeira songs is a fertile field for portraying the present lived reality and which in principle externalizes curricula, but that it can also produce different subjectivities.

Keywords: Identity. Curriculum. Power relations. Capoeira. Songs.