O protagonismo feminino negro no coco de roda paraibano: devires na conquista e defesa de territórios afrodiaspóricos

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Erivan
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/24917
• topic: Mulher; Preta; Coco de roda; Interseccionalidade; Devir-negra; Woman; Black; Intersectionality; “Black becoming”; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::ARTES::MUSICA

The thesis is based on stories of black lives. It is about musical protagonisms of black women, in the territory of the coco de roda of Paraíba. In fact, the central question that moved this study was: how do their leadership protagonisms, from their contemporary vicissitudes intersected with their ancestral ethnic values, produce and strengthen their blackness and their communities? That said, the general objective was to understand, from the protagonists' speech places, their Afrodiasporic leadership movements as true matripotences that become masters of coco de roda in daily constructs, and that consequently overflow to their communities in political- social and economic ramifications that strengthen the struggles for territorial conquests and defenses. This reinforces one of the central hypotheses that points to the practice of coco de roda as a daily struggle of resistance beyond pure entertainment. Methodologically, the work is based on a qualitative research model that uses a decolonial line inspired by the studies of the black Portuguese artist and thinker, Grada Kilomba (2019). However, I also used instruments and procedures for collecting and analyzing quantitative data. The beginning of the field research with participant observation dates back to the second half of 2018. Subsequently, with the advent of the Covid19 pandemic, it was necessary to stop the fieldwork, which could only be properly resumed at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. In the meantime, for health security reasons, part of the interviews were carried out remotely by video calls. In this process, questionnaires were applied that sought to capture the memories of the lives of the masters Vó Mera and Ana do Coco. However, the interviews naturally took on a semi-structured character, mainly because of my condition as an intersected black subject. The data collection and organization procedures involved the selection and transcription of the masters' statements; categorization, transcription and analysis of their music; literature review and theoretical review; construction and use of maps, graphs, charts and tables. The theoretical cosmovisions, which intersect the thesis, dialogue directly with the cosmoperceptions of the masters, since it was necessary to find a theory that was in tune with the original statements, that is, an alignment with the natural that guided this scientific and sociopolitical journey. The need to think and build this thesis transversally was in order to break the hierarchy between researcher and researched, above all, because an approach to these women could only be revealed by them. The importance of bringing these epistemological discourses to the fore was and is to demystify the hierarchy of knowledge, mainly because it deals with Afro-diasporic female knowledge from the peripheral layers of Brazilian society that involves quilombola and quilombola women, that is, feminine form of existing, which breaks the myth of the universal woman. The study showed that these women with their “black becomings” went through very different life journeys until they reached the status of masters of coco de roda. However, because they are black women in everyday aquilombamento, they have many intersectional lines that connect them through the sufferings arising from racism and sexism and in the struggles and pleasures that come from practicing the coco de roda. The research results show that coco de roda is made in a daily performativity that generates a leading role in the struggle for black territorial conquests and defenses, that is, a praxis of blackness that elevates self-esteem to authentic disalienation. In this journey, the researcher who speaks to you also entered a process of revisiting his black condition. Therefore, I can say that this scientific work is also a form of intersecting aquilombamento.