Pérolas da cantoria de repente em São José do Egito no Vale do Pajeú: memória e produção cultural

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Josivaldo Custódio da
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Letras; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cultura Popular; Literatura Oral; Memória e Produção Cultural; Popular Culture; Oral Literature; Memory and Cultural Production; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6172

This study aims to record and study the memory of Repente Singing in São José do Egito-PE The Immortal Cradle of Poetry, a town in the microregion Valley of Pajeú. The singing was discussed in the context of oral literature, removing it from the involucre of folk literature, conventionally taken as the basis for categorizing this art of northeast repente. A critical theoretical route has been traced about Memory, Orality and Identity and also about the origin, the context, the singer and modality of the singing universe. Thereafter, the memory and poetry of São José do Egito have been analyzed through the speeches and poems collected in the interviews. As a result, we realized how much poetry, not just the improvised one, but also the bancada one, is respected and admired in the region, revealing cultural values and identity of the people. It has been found out a variation in many memorized verses. This proves the direct influence of orality, which does not mean that these texts are to be taxed as folklore or without poetic value. On the contrary, it reveals the existence of the poetic vein, the reciter himself, he feels no difficulty in modifying the verses, instead, creates new verses, which justifies a view of poetry in traditionalization. Thus, there is an oral poetic collection in the city which persists in the memory of that people that quite often is transformed by the reciter. Finally, we understand that in São José do Egito, poetry is a kind of "their daily bread", allowing the creation of a new way of treatment among citizens that is the term poet.