Memories of the Sambas in the festivities of Rei Roubado, São Cosme and Damião, Santa Bárbara and other games from the rural community of Benfica, Santo Antônio de Jesus - South of Bahia's Recôncavo.
Ethnomusicology, Samba de Roda, Rural Community, Heritage and Memory.
This research aims to investigate possible processes of reframing and invisibility of samba de roda musical practices in the rural community of Benfica, in Santo Antônio de Jesus - BA - town located south of the Recôncavo. I seek to understand how the standardization of ideals of civilization imposed by local power, the laws and codes of postures, urbanization and modernization affected the practices cultural aspects of the municipality, in this specific case, the samba de roda. When doing a bibliographic survey of works done on Santo Antônio de Jesus, no record was found regarding the samba de roda, except for the works of the historians, Maitê Rangel (2010) and Liliane Lima (2013), who, in their research, observed a strong link between urbanization and modernization processes with the silences and transformations of the city's cultural practices, approaches that contributed to the definition of the central objective of this research. Another important aspect of this work, is to relate these factors mentioned by the authors above with the absence of the town in the Dossier of the Samba de Roda do Recôncavo Baiano produced by IPHAN, since the researches and surveys of samba groups covered several municipalities in that territory. Seeking to meet these demands, the research methodologies procedures that fit the proposal are qualitative, using ethnography as a methodological resource, which, due to the pandemic needed to be reformulated and adapted. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the community samba singers, with records in audio and video recordings indicated in the text as a listening script and made available to the public (www.soundcloud.com). It was also realized a transcription and analysis of some of the sambas and their lyrics, as well as data collection from historical documents, public archives, periodicals and newspapers. With this work I intend to contribute to the following questions: How the urbanization and modernization processes influenced / have influenced the samba de roda practices of the town? How this research can contribute to memory, dissemination or elaboration of possible historical repair projects?