Calangos e calangueiros: um canto marginal no caminho do ouro

Abstract

This text studies the Calango, a traditional cultural expression of the oralized song of Minas Gerais and Southeastern Brazil, that manifests itself through the improvised challenges in which two or more singers, supported by musical instruments (accordion and tambourine), wage a dispute of the type question / response, in a performative act that requires the effective co-participation of the listeners. It aims to clarify patterns of behavior that single out a specific being / doing as a consequent reflection of identities that have rearticulated, mirroring the influences of initial pluralities and the continuity of complex multi-meaning processes. Thus, understanding that the ethnic and cultural multifacetation of our ancestors aroused those interval spaces in which unprecedented identity formations emerged - singular and collective - that surpassed the discourses of pedagogical horizontality and rearticulated themselves under new presuppositions, led to the effect of bibliographic research and field, in order to scale the communication networks that operate locally and / or regionally on Him. Without exhausting the possibilities of study, it is tried to conceive to what extent the processes constituting a calangute identity may have come to term or remain operative, rewriting social, historical and cultural frames.