Web-série Sampleados: a musicalidade da Amazônia Paraense e a cultura digital em diálogo

Abstract

This research proposes a sensitive listening to the cultural expressions and musicality of the Pará Amazon within the dynamics of the digital world, based on the web series Sampleados. The objective is to describe how production contributes to the strengthening of an Amazonian cultural identity. The web series is understood as a territory of aesthetic creation, where sampling - a technique that combines sound fragments - becomes a methodological metaphor, evoking memories, affections, and belongings. It reflects on the digitization of musical traditions and the redefinition of Pará's heritage online. The methodology, entitled "sampling," uses a qualitative approach, articulates virtual ethnography (Christine Hine) and ethnomusicology (Anthony Seeger). More than a methodological procedure, it is a political gesture of care: a mode of sensitive listening. The analysis of audience comments operates as ethnographic listening, revealing identity and affective meanings in cyberspace. The theoretical framework mobilizes Stuart Hall, Ailton Krenak, João de Jesus Paes Loureiro, Michel de Certeau, Clifford Geertz, Henry Jenkins, Suely Ronilk, Sonia Chada, among others, to reflect on culture, Pará's musicality, media convergence, and re-existence. Reflecting on the Amazon's presence in digital culture, the research celebrates the creative power of Pará's Amazon and music as a language of re-existence. The sample, in this context, is memory in motion, a gesture of reinvention. What is heard in the beats is not only a celebration, but also a symbolic struggle. Thus, the Amazon (re)inscribes itself in the world as a creative, sonorous, and living center.