Aprendizagem musical autodidata: um estudo exploratório com os músicos populares em Varjota-CE

Abstract

This research addresses the process of self-taught music learning, highlighting the strategies and methods used for the technical-performance development of popular musicians, having as general objective: to understand the process of musical learning of popular musicians from Varjota-CE, having self-learning. as a non-formal educational process and the “hearing” technique as a learning tool. The methodology used for the elaboration of this work was the exploratory study of qualitative variable, carried out between August and October 2019. For the elaboration of the bibliographic research, several data collection instruments were used, such as books, fragments. books, articles, monographs, dissertations, theses and publications on specialized websites. For the field research, a questionnaire was designed to characterize the participants and a script of semi-structured questions for interviews about the self-taught learning process with local musicians. Finally, reading, analysis, discussion and text production were made using the available information. This study showed that self-taught music provokes fascination in early-stage music students because it is their own method of learning. However, even without formal knowledge, self-taught musicians have an enormous ability to pick up music by ear, which facilitates the learning process. learning process. In short, it became apparent that Varjota's popular musicians came from the local popular classes and developed out of contact with other musicians in the region and through the technique of "listening".