Danced coconut and mining candombe: performatic traditions banto-brasileiras

Abstract

Most of the dance singing traditions found in Brazil result from the inscribed continuum by palimpsests of African matrices that had to be reframed. Studies have revealed, in the last few times, that the majority of Afro-Brazilian manifestations are branched into the large linguistic and cultural Family bantu. On Brazilian soil, many Africans have played a number of successive and complex ethnogens restarted over the past three centuries: diverse forms of ancestor worship, cosmologies of lives distinct from the dominant European system, with values, customs, beliefs and traditions that constituted the cultures Afro-Brazilian. We studied two cultures of dance songs found in the Northeast and Southeast of the country: first, the dancing coconut; the second, candombe from Minas Gerais. These distinct oral cultures are compared using performances and musical instruments whose cooking techniques are, in most cases, used by the Congo-Angolan peoples. In addition, we expose some testimonies and narratives from captains and masters about the origin of the tradition of dancing songs and how these records are foundations for the elaboration of acts poetic, traditionally practiced in the daily lives of communities.