History of Paulo Lyra: popular culture and resistence at of Felipe Camarão comunity - Natal/RN
Popular culture; Identity; Resistance.
The present ethnographic research aims to study the life history of Paulo Lyra, a popular-culture artist from the neighborhood Felipe Camarão at Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. We seek to understand, anthropologically, the reality of this subject considering that he uses artistic crafts to maintain his cultural identity, through a supposed resistance of his traditions. The motivation for the research comes from my experience as an educator in a Study Skills Project (PHE) in a social project carried out by the Serviço Social do Comércio - SESC in a partnership with the no-governmental organization Núcleo de Amparo ao Menor - NAM at Felipe Camarão. Working at this project provided me the opportunity to observe the social context of the students in that community, as they were were involved in cultural activities within the project through workshops and presentations carried out by the artist Paulo Lyra, who was also in a situation of vulnerability to violence and marginality, a social reality of peripheral neighborhoods in that area. For a deeper foundation in relation to the central question of study, I intend to focus the work on Popular Culture, Social Dynamics and Education. For the theoretical framework, Marilena Chauí (2008), Stuart Hall (2005), Manuel Castells (2002). To develop the investigation, the methodology follows three important steps that guide the main objectives, 1) an ethnographic study of the life history of the artist Paulo Lyra. 2) the observation of the reality and social facts of this subject in the process of cultural identity. 3) the analysis of what was observed and recorded throughout the process. The research relevance is justified by its importance in the scientific field, mainly because it examines pertinent questions about the subject's performance and cultural resistance in the community of Felipe Camarão, emphasizing its social context and its representativeness for the groups of popular traditions at Rio Grande do Norte.