MUSICALITIES IN PARTY TIME: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PILGRIMAGE DYNAMICS IN JUAZEIRO DO NORTE, CE
Pilgrimages. Feast. Music. Juazeiro do Norte.
This text sought to guide a study focused on the investigation of existing musical parties in pilgrimages - official and unofficial - that take place in Juazeiro do Norte, in the interior of Ceará. These events are endowed with a complex cultural and spiritual effervescence that make this scenario a vast field of concerns. There is a tendency for those who don't go on a pilgrimage to associate the events of the pilgrimage with sacrifice, with penance, but with little emphasis on the other aspect, which is the dimension of the feast, especially its musical dimension. Therefore, this analysis interprets the content present in these pilgrimages in terms of the dimension of the party, its musical forms, its social interactions and the multiple perceptions of what it is to hold pilgrimages for its subjects, who are the pilgrims, the people from Juazeirão and the institutions that actively work in the holding the event in the city. With the inclusion of an analytical study of sound and visual records, it is proposed to illustrate the field scenario, elucidating the elements that appear in the pilgrimage phenomenon, in its consensus, dissent, negotiations and meanings. Founded on the articulation of musical and religious themes, this research conducts a dialogue with classic and contemporary authors of the Social Sciences for the analytical writing of a thesis through musical ethnography.