MEMÓRIA, TRADIÇÃO E CULTURA NEGRAS: A CONGADA EM CAIAPÔNIA-GOIÁS.

Abstract

This research had as study´s object the Congada in Caiapônia city in Goiás, starting from the memory of the black population who lives there, sought to understand the structure and the function of the party agents, highlighting it conflicts as part of its trajectory´s while an element of Brazilian culture and as a cultural black origin´s expression. Got about several authors, giving emphasis to Souza (2006), Rabaçal (1976), Costa (1998). This research was made with bibliographic and interviews´ research of participatory methodology and mainly sought to answer to the following question: how Caiapônia built and build the party called Congada? What motivates its singularities, once it differs in several other aspects? The answers pointed to the lack of group interaction´s with a religious´ fellowship, the public support lacke and the discontinuance of the relationship with the Catholic Church. This work sought an approach which showed not only what was visible and structural in the party, but which contemplate their historical transformations, their relationship built in political´s spaces, religious and in the people from Caiapônia city. Implied also in analyzing the traditions that preserved the rites, the continuities, the sacred values in despite of congada with the devotion to Nossa Senhora do Rosário . Another factor understood in this study corresponded to the blacks people´s consciousness around the congada create a space for the strengthening of identities with the party´s reorientation by means of organizing a cultural school formation, social and political.