Listening regimes and historical space of Minas (18th-19th centuries)

• Autor(a) principal: Buarque, Virgínia Albuquerque de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Buscacio, Cesar Maia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/43619
• topic: sonority; listening regime; soundscape; historic space; Minas Gerais; sonoridade; regime de escuta; paisagem sonora; espaço histórico; Minas Gerais; História

 This article is the result of research on the echoing sonorities in Minas Gerais between the 18th and 19th centuries, carried out in the context of post-doctoral studies in the Postgraduate Programme in History at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and the Postgraduate Programme in Music at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). This article talks about the triple listening regime (teological-catholic, rational-illustrated and romantic) that granted meanings to the echoing sonorous plurality in the lands of the State of Minas Gerais between the 18th and 19th centuries, i.e., before the technological turn that allowed the recording and the reproduction of sounds in equipments of industrial production. The sonorities that reverberated in this spatiality (from the ecosystems, from the trades, from the sociability practices, from the religiosity, from the social-political repression, etc.) were defined through political-cultural codes, hereby treated as listening regimes, with their specific criteria of valorization, hierarchy, depreciation and even of silencing of the audible. In theoretical terms, the notion of listening regime, grounded in the Foucaldian reflection, is collated in this text with the musicological conception of sonorous landscape. Of a concomitant form, it is postulated, in interlocution with the reflection formulated by Michel de Certeau, that the listening regimes operating in the colonial and in the imperial Minas   Gerais had an important role in the historic configuration of this territory, seeking out to approximate it to a civilizing project continuously torn  not only by tensions and conflicts with environmental and social-cultural alterities, but also by resistances practices and subversion of the subaltern groups.