Descartes Marques Gadelha e o campo percussivo da cidade de Fortaleza: a constituição do habitus de autoridade musical pedagógica na perspectiva da história de vida e formação

Abstract

The present work, starting from the categories of analysis developed in the praxiology of Pierre Bourdieu, aims to understand the construction of the percussive field of the city of Fortaleza/CE, focusing on the life history and formation of the musical habitus of Descartes Marques Gadelha. Thus, we seek to unveil its artistic, cultural and pedagogical contribution to percussive groups formed in ONG´s, schools and universities in the city. We point out as a reference his artistic actions carried out in the carnival field of the samba schools (1968 - 1978) and the Maracatus groups (2000 - 2010). We also seek to show how Descartes Gadelha became a Musical Pedagogical Authority in the city of Fortaleza due to the institutional recognition of his work and the recognition of his peers. About the activity of percussive groups formation, we will approach the contributions of Schrader (2011), focusing on the performance of Descartes Marques Gadelha for the percussive practices developed in the scope of the degree course in Music at UFC. Due to the recognition that the knowledge of Afro-Brazilian music is present mainly in the oral culture of drum masters, relating to their life trajectory and affective memory, and that the process of training conductors of percussive groups goes through significant experiences in the lasting relationships between teachers and students, we use the methodology of life history, whose autobiographical narrative of the agent leads our theoretical reflections on the themes we intend to analyze. We collected the data from this research through semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents, videos and audios made available by Descartes himself or informants related to his trajectory of teaching and learning Afro-Brazilian percussion.