Culture and pandemic? Celebrations of São João in the city of Dom Basílio-BA

• Autor(a) principal: de Oliveira Xavier, Antônio Nolberto
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Silva Santos, Vicente de Paulo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Internacional de Folkcomunicação
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/folkcom/article/view/21043
• topic: Cultura popular;; Festa Junina;; Pandemia;; Produção cultural.; Popular culture;; Junina Festival;; Pandemic;; Cultural production.; Cultura popular;; Festival junina;; Pandemia;; Producción cultural.

This study analyzes the artistic intervention project entitled "São João Vivo", carried out in June 2020 and 2021, in the city of Dom Basilio, southwest region of the state of Bahia. The relevance of cultural action appears as a crucial point in this work to describe the results and meanings that were generated in view of the realization of the ornamentation contest of the houses during the festivities of St. John (patron saint of the city). The realization of the project arises from the need to find, in the midst of the pandemic of covid-19, caminhos that led the community to remain in a state of celebration and communion junine, period of its greatest popular cultural manifestation, even with all the restrictions and measures of social removal, issued by the health agencies. Based on the reflexive-inductive research, from the participant observation, the author describes the paths taken in the realization of the project and its importance in the context mentioned; highlights the flows of participation in the said competition and concludes, among other results, on the festive sense attributed to the city, in addition to the promotion of local culture in pandemic period. The search for validation of the cultural practices developed appears as one of the objectives in this work, while the systematization of actions and the description of the ways of being/doing of the community contemplate timely characteristics to technical and scientific reflection. This work is, above all, an invitation to know the beauties and knowledge produced in time of scant manifestation of popular culture.   KEYWORDS: Popular Culture; Junina Festival; Pandemic; Cultural Production