Música, cultura e resistência: a aprendizagem musical como forma de transformação social.

Abstract

The cultural space, many times, is a fight field in asymmetric conditions between dominant and dominated. These relations are here understood using as reference Bourdieu’s view. The music can be taken as a fighting instrument against the oppression or even as resistance and it is related to a culture. This way, music is understood as a reflective practice which affirms itself culturally and, somehow, is expressed socially. In this sense, this work has intended to understand how music can initiate emancipatory attitudes in the oppressed subject. Considering this goal, our research applied semi-structured interviews in order to realize common and noncommon aspects attributed to music by people who came from vulnerability situations. Therefore, we also did a theoretical review, which has established our understanding about how poverty is a condition that determine, but that can be changed by the subjects affected by it. This way, we had three informant categories: teachers from the Escola de Música Maestro José Wilson Brasil, professors from the Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC/Campus Sobral’s Music Education Program, and rappers from cultural moviments developed in the periphery of this city. The methodology used was quantitative, directed from an interview semi- structured in which the interviewer had preset questions, but there was liberty for the positioning of others according to eventual interest during the interview. From data collection and analyses we came to enlargement our perspective concerning music as a way of reflection about the life conditions of the poor person. The work has pointed interesting results about the music as a way to break the precarious habitus. Our conclusion ratifies that music is an interesting device to an eventual social transformation, that is, the results have shown that music can be a fundamental instrument of knowledge and reflection, and it can led the subject to a social growing.