Entre Cânticos e Coristas: O protagonismo de regentes corais nas Igrejas Batistas do Cariri

Abstract

In the Baptist Churches of Cariri, faith and music are related in more formal activities, related to the service, and in other daily community activities. In this context, choirs can be conducting by people, whose music education and performance takes place mainly in these churches. The research that results in this thesis had as general objective to study the musical protagonism choir conductors of Baptist Churches in Cariri, Ceará, from the experience of musical and religious life of conductors who work in Northeast of Brazil. The specific objectives of the research were: to reflect on my trajectory as a choir conductor in Baptist Churches in Cariri; to know the musical and religious context of the choir conducting and Baptist Churches in Cariri; and, finally, to dialogue with the other choral conductors of Baptist Churches in Cariri about their formation and their performance as conductors. The methodologies adopted for research are autoethnography (BENETTI, 2017; VERGUEIRO, 2016; SANTOS, 2017) and the ethnography of Music (SEEGER, 2008). The idea of ​​musical protagonism was adopted in the research (ROSA; NOGUEIRA, 2015; CARDOSO, 2012; LAGO, 2018). Gender studies in music (BUTLER, 2003; OYĚWÙMÍ, 2004; ROSA, 2010; ROSA et ali, 2013; CUSICK, 1994), situated knowledge (HARAWAY, 1995), locus of speech (RIBEIRO, 2019) and intersectionality (AKOTIRENE, 2019; COLLINS; BILGE, 2020) were chosen as fundamental epistemic bases in the analyzes and discussions raised in this thesis. The research is within the scope of Ethnomusicology, Choir Conducting and Protestant and Baptist Theology (WEBER, 2004; AZEVEDO, 2004; LAGO, 2018; VIEIRA, 2019). The research dealt with musical practices present in the Baptist Churches of Cariri, state of Ceará, with reflections that deepen some discussions related to religious identity, training as conductor, recognition, professionalization, relationship with the religious leadership and performance of female conductors. The research contemplates the performance of conductors and choir conductors, approaching knowledge built in music and in the religiosity of the research interlocutors. The discussions raised in the research point to a significant diversity of formation and performance trajectories of conductors, which are related to the religious and social particularities of the Baptist Churches of Cariri and of individual performances. A variety of tensions between poles were discussed, such as the institutional and the community, the traditional and the modern, the artistic and the social, the professional and voluntary/ministerial performance of the choir conductors in the Baptist Churches. Finally, a critique of religious fundamentalism is postulated from an approximation to Contemporary Theologies, based on the ideas adopted for the analysis.