Adeus Maio! Salve Junho!: narrativas e representações dos festejos juninos em Belém do Pará nos anos de 1950

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the narratives and representations of June festivities in Belém of Pará in the 1950s. These festivities won highlights in the pages of books, newspapers and magazines circulating in Belém from the period in question, where it was possible to find ads, chronicles and novels that deal with this festive time. The June festivals of great importance to a significant portion of belenense society, counted on the participation of several musical ensembles, “juninos” groups and audio equipment animating these events performed in various spaces of the suburbs and the city center. In addition, several were the views of journalists and intellectuals on this festive celebration, these being analyzed from the distribution of roles of values and behavior standards proposed for them in his writings. In this sense, the concept of representation, proposed by the French historian Roger Chartier, permeate the dissertation in question, in which the author points out that the speeches are interspersed strategies and practices that tend to impose authority and even induce the other the choices and they are built dialogically a game that includes interests, conflicts and negotiations. The research presented included aid supplies taken from the newspaper O Liberal, Folha do Norte, A Província do Pará, O Estado do Pará, A Vanguarda and the magazine Amazônia, published in the 1950s, as well as memoirs novels that talk about the subject worked here in the second half of the twentieth century.