Pelos sons do arcanjo menestrel: culturas populares e educações no movimento da Cntoria de São Gabriel

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study deals with the cultural movement and the educational processes of non-formal learning that involve the universe of singing and its relations with school education in the city of São Gabriel-Bahia. This singing is a party that was created in the 1980s, with its first edition being held in 1991. The institution that organizes the singing party is Fundação Culturarte, a non-profit organization with volunteer work. Its projects are developed through fundraising through cultural notices, scheduled events and sponsorships. In this text, foundation and singing are mixed, as it is the singing that gives rise to Fundação Culturarte.The singing party was born before the creation of the Foundation, from the ideas and ideals of some young people from the city of São Gabriel who were looking for a cultural movement from the ground up to have fun. They then got together and formed the MAC (Movement of Art and Culture) that suffered persecution from society at the time. Some stop working at MAC and others join the social and political movement of the Catholic Church, being supported by a priest.From that was created JUPP (Youth United in the Pursuit of Peace). These young people start working with theatre, people's political awareness and some social work. The combination or experience of these two groups gave rise to the CulturArte Group, which performed the first singing, and later constituted the Fundação Culturarte de São Gabriel. Our focus within the study was to deal with the process of cultural formation related to the educational, defending the idea that the São Gabriel´s singing (Cantoria de São Gabriel) movement promotes educational practices between formal school and non-formal education.Therefore, we treat singing as a hybrid event that brings together various manifestations of music, poetry and popular cultures, in a process of plural education. We then call for our textual dialogue the experiences of Gohn (2003, 2004, 2010 and 2011) who deal with social movements and non-formal education processes based on them; Brandão (1981, 1997, 2002a, 2002b) with his studies on cultures and the expansion of the concept of education for education, ideas that we have shared since the title of this research. We amalgamate and dialogue these authors with the idea of cultural hybridism from Canclini (2000 and 2003) and the constant "movement" of popular cultures, bringing the concept of hybridity to explain the hybrid relationship between the educational processes of São Gabriel´s singing (Cantoria de São Gabriel and school education.The knowledge that is in the universe of singing such as reisado groups, the São Gonçalo roda, the art of the circus, the capoeira circle and with them a whole popular songbook with local musical and literary productions are knowledge that move a pedagogical process, promoting educations. São Gabriel´s singing (Cantoria de São Gabriel is an innovative event that brings together different types of knowledge from popular culture groups, hybridizing them with school knowledge, both contributing to other learning. Finally, what moves us is the certainty of the work's contribution to a broadening of studies and research in the fields of Education intertwined with music and popular cultures.