A Gênese da "Cultura Moleque Cearense": análise sociológica da interpretação e produção culturais

Abstract

This thesis focuses primarily on studying the historical social origins of an “moleque cearense culture” over slightly more than a century. In a general sense this is a label that has served to identify humorous practices in the broader social enviroment and yet gives rise to the cultural artistic production and promotes the local entertainment-tourism institutional mechanism. Although only in certain areas of the cultural production that is sociologically and methodologically feasible to conduct such research. For understanding the current manifestation of that “moleque culture” this research aims a local group of humorists who both make shows in the Fortaleza’s nightclubs how they appear in the broadcast national television reaching large audiences. Therefore for the research proposals I brought a set of methodological measures that served properly for the interpretative evidence collection. First I red some sources in the past of the Ceará’s literature wich focused on everything about the idea of a “cearense humour”. I used as part of that research the reading of periodicals and newspapers, local, most of them, and I managed to get possession of two textbooks published by Ceará Museum which brought together news covering the 1930’s until 2007. I too make research in the Collection of Rare Books of the Municipal Library Fortaleza, Governador Menezes Pimentel. The Internet was a great and good source of information for that research. Yet I made open interviews directed by a short script question with eight local humorists. On some results I demonstrate that the creation and maintenance of that “moleque cearense culture” is due to a persistent appreciation of a modernist perspective about the “popular” and to its more recently artistic cultural and tourist apropriations.