Tem jovem no samba de roda: "Esse é o samba chula Juventude do Iguape, somos filhos do Iguape. Esse é o samba cultural que nasceu na Casa de Samba"

Abstract

There are young people in the samba de roda: “This is the samba chula Juventude do Iguape, we are children of Iguape. This is the cultural samba that was born at Casa de Samba ” is an ethnographic work, from an ethnomusicological perspective, about youth musical practices of the samba de roda group Juventude do Iguape. The dissertation is the result of the researcher's coexistence in the quilombola community of Santiago do Iguape, in the rural area of the municipality of Cachoeira, in the Recôncavo Baiano. It consists of problematizing the generalized discourse that announces the disinterest of young people towards samba de roda. The work proposes an inversion of this perspective through the transposition of the statement in question: why are young people interested in samba de roda? Through testimonies by sambadores and sambadeira, reports in field diaries and photographic records, an attempt was made to articulate the musical practices of the members of the group with conceptual approaches on the categories of youth, territorial identity and tradition, in an interdisciplinary perspective. The research presents reflections on the demands and expectations of young people in relation to the continuity of the musical tradition, the processes of patrimonialization of the manifestation and the potential of the Association of Sambadores and Sambadeiras of the state of Bahia as a place of political articulation. Between conflicts and paradoxes, the research points out that there are young people in samba de roda, towards whom the energies, investments and public politics must be directed.