Abstract

PEREZ, Carolina dos Santos Bezerra. Youth, music and ancestrality in jongo community in Tamandaré - Guaratinguetá/SP. Imaginario [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.11, pp. 247-276. ISSN 1413-666X.

This article presents some reflections based on the living together and the reciprocity established in a two-year research about the Jongo’s community in Tamandaré- Guaratinguetá/São Paulo. Through processual observation, anthropological research and ethnographic tendency, I have observed in this community the young people’s performance, and the many different ways and styles of teaching the younger generations. The methodological procedures used in this study were based on observation, photographic register, interviews and sound captation in the performance context. In this way, this article presents the knowledge acquired in this experience of teaching and learning in a community, which keeps the educational tradition for ages, cultivating an extra-school educational concept, which adopts the learn-with-another-person methodology, creating and recreating heirs to a tradition that initiates the young people through the word power, orality and memory, making them feel, through their own senses, a strong existential burden which reflects and changes their essences, becoming fundamental influences in the identity formation process.

Keywords : Youth; Music; Dance; Popular culture; Youth identity; Art-education; Imaginary anthropology; Education and culture; Jongo; Ancestrality; African-descendents; African-Brazilian; Bantu culture.