Performances das timbila moçambicana e suas redes culturais: da estrutura visível à estrutura invisível

• Autor(a) principal: Chibanga, Vitor Abílio
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12050
• topic: Timbila moçambicana; Performances culturais; Oralidade; Contextos culturais; Mozambican timbila; Orality; Cultural contexts; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

This dissertation reflects on the performances of timbila, from its complex networks of cultural relationships shared within its profound structure, in different dimensions - historical, social, cultural - in colonial and post-independence contexts. This reflection has to do with the way timbila has been perceived in terms of most visible aspects, presented on stage, within the reach of the general public, and of the elements that are found in the deep structure such as symbolic values and social roles. The approach was carried out from an interdisciplinary perspective. In this context, different fields of knowledge were put together to dialogue with each other, such as, for example, the performances of timbila, cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, ethnomusicology, literature and linguistics, in the sense of providing a deeper and more comprehensive understanding. From this interdisciplinary perspective a reflection on timbila was set out and made, based on authors such as: Hugh Tracey (1949), Henri Junod (1939), Martin Luther (1980), Ilídio Rocha (1962), Amândio Munguambe (2000), Valdemiro Jopela (2006), Marílio Wane (2020). In this reflection, the research seeks to situate the timbila not only as music and dance, but as a practice inserted within a complex network of cultural relationships such as myths of origin, which lies within the relationships between tradition and modernity. The research seeks to understand the timbila from the relationship that it establishes with the orality that has functioned as a depository of the knowledge that was preserved in an intergenerational way, functioning as one of the communication mechanisms that shares knowledge the chope people have built for themselves over the centuries. In addition, aspects inherent to timbila events are discussed, without losing sight of its symbolic value, in the colonial and post- independence context, as well as the different structures that this practice carried in different contexts. These are contexts that are marked by power relations. These are elements of the performances that are not visible in the act of performing, but which consequently contribute to the final product displayed on stage. It's based on that line of thought that we realized that the practice of timbila should not be thought only from the visible elements, but above all, from the non-visible elements that are present in the profound structure which contributes to the final product in an implicit way.