Carnaval de São Luiz do Paraitinga: conflito entre isolamento e abertura da cidade

• Autor(a) principal: Allucci, Renata Rendelucci
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12873
• topic: Carnaval; Festa; Cultura popular; Patrimônio cultural; São Luiz do Paraitinga; Carnival; Festival; Popular culture; Cultural heritage; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This work is meant to understand São Luiz do Paraitinga´ s carnival, in São Paulo, restarted in 1981 as a street festival after its prohibition for 60 years (1920-1980) by the Catholic Church. Its return is linked to several factors, including reaction of luizenses to a TV report. But the dynamics of popular culture was probably its greatest propellant. This culture, auto called caipira by its actors, has determined many of the features that carnival acquired after its recovery, with particular reference to exclusive use of carnival marchinhas rhythm, all composed by luizenses and that became the main distinctive feature of this festival. The festival understood as a product of social reality, this carnival also expresses the political aspects of its accomplishment, considering that it takes place in a city which heritage, tangible and intangible, are targets for preservation agencies at municipal, state and federal levels which also give to this festival special and peculiar unique features. Contemporary questions have shown the interest of media, tourism, entertainment groups and many other social, cultural and economic organizations in popular festivals, and it was no different with the carnival of São Luiz do Paraitinga. These questions motivated conflicts that are gradually being discussed by luizenses in an attempt to reconcile the local tradition with the opening to new actors and, among them, sponsors for its realization. So, the research attempts to contribute to this discussion, bringing together various aspects of carnival realization, in search of strategies to enable a better understanding of its directions and affirmation of cultural practices in São Luiz do Paraitinga