Era tão bonito... conflitos de sensibilidade musical e o desaparecimento de um Cordão de Pássaro

Abstract

This work aims the investigation and the discussion of the conflict of musical sensibilities among different generations of residents of communities that lie between the 21 and the 23 kilometers of the PA136 road, near the municipality of Terra Alta, Pará, Brazil, as an important factor in the non-ressurection process of Cordão de Azulão. This is an ethnomusicological work of ethnographic character, in which the theme is developed from the discourses of these residents about a Cordão de Pássaro called Cordão do Azulão that used to happen in those neighborhoods, and that have disappeared forty years ago. The nature of the musical sensibility is discussed mainly from the writings of John Blacking, while the musical ethnography work is based on what Clifford Geertz calls a Dense Ethnography. The study reveals that the social, economic, religious, political, and environmental changes that occurred in the surveyed communities had directly affected its residents lifestyle, which favors that the traditional cultural values, that grant sense to musical expressions like the Cordão do Azulão, to cease to be apprehended by the new generation of residents, making this Cordão to exist only in the memory of the oldest.