A apropriação de uma tradição: um estudo sobre o festival de música folclórica de Santa Rosa do Tocantis/TO

Abstract

The Catholic religious celebrations called Folias of Saints are a Portuguese Colonial inheritance registering time and daily life of farmers families in Tocantins, specifically in the Southeast and the center of the State. In these regions as well as planting and for spoon it has the time to celebration ( festar in Portuguese) to congregate the foliões , to walk with the folias , to raise the mast in the day consecrated to the saint. The folias of the Holy Spirit are recognized as most traditional. The devotion is passed down of generation the generation. The party is of the community, all share of its accomplishment. Roda , Catira and Sússia composes the universe of the folia . Sacred, profane, heterogeneous and without delimited borders, folias confer identity to communities. Carried through in the interior of these communities it is related to its religiosity, the collective, the reciprocity and solidarity of the individuals. It is a manifestation of its culture. It are of this context this manifestation loses its originality and gain new meanings; it loses its usual character and is presented as a spectacle. It is from this point of view that is analyzed the Santa Rosa City s Folk Music Festival. The creation and accomplishment of the festival are a concrete action of the mediation of the municipal government on the tradition of the folias of saints. The festival concern on music and rhythm developed by the foliões. Compositions of the folias as catira , the sússia and the roda are segmented and transformed into considered categories and awardees as better catira , better roda , better vena and etc. The folião is played in a dimension destitute of an original sacred character and yields to the competition. The festival gives emphasis to the plasticity and the aesthetic one in detriment of the cultural meaning. It transforms the rituals of the folias into ephemeral presentations that do not consist as part accomplishes of the life of the foliões. It is a new inserted element in the dynamics of the culture provoking changes in the values constructed and attributed to the cultural goods. Through the appropriation of these goods for the government a new manifestation is invented where it withholds the control of its accomplishment. This appropriation also implies in the construction of a process of identification of the city of Santa Rosa inside of the region, the State or even of the Country. Thus the municipal government took for itself the guardianship of the cultural preservation. However the idea of preservation through external agents if does not apply to the cultural manifestations, it only related to the groups or communities that carry through them. The continuity or not of the manifestation must it a negotiation in the interior of each community. But the quarrel on the mediation of the municipal government to the cultural manifestations is validates. It can contribute of some form to rethink the elaboration and application of cultural politics.