TRANSE DOS TAMBORES: THE CROSSROADS OF DRUMMING IN THE CITY OF NATAL (RN)
Batuque;Culture;Memory;Blackness;Afro-Brazilian culture
The state of Rio Grande do Norte has a diversity of cultural manifestations linked to percussive rhythms, such as coco de roda, zambê and bambelô.However, for a few decades, popular cultural events lost their prominence in the city's cultural scene.In recent years, some groups and collectives organized around batuque have emerged and started to operate in the streets and avenues of the city of Natal.The investigation seeks to identify and track the batuque scene in the city of Natal, created from groups, collectives, gatherings of supporters, organized through percussion, batuque (a word commonly associated by the subjects involved in the scene), as the main sound element andorganizer of Afro-Potiguar musical performances.Furthermore, I intend to explore all the imagery mobilized by the cultural practices of batuque through the idea of Afro-Amerindian ancestry driven by groups and articulated together with the communities of terreiros peoples in Natal.Therefore, through this research, I intend to contribute to discussions around the concepts of imagination, ancestry, territorialities, identities, culture, memory and tradition.