Música regional e sertão: a representação da identidade do Tocantins do final do século XX até as primeiras décadas do século XXI

Abstract

The present dissertation was developed within the Professional Master's Program in Amazonian Populations (PPGHISPAM), at the Federal University of Tocantins, in the Porto Nacional campus. The study presents musical language as a cultural element that links characteristics of time and space. Therefore, as a historical source, it demonstrates that contexts of experiences can be present in regional music, reflecting identity. Thus, through the regional music of Tocantins, represented by those considered pioneers of regional musicality, we seek to analyze how the Tocantins "sertaneja" identity is represented in the songs of composers Genésio Tocantins, Braguinha Barroso, Juraildes da Cruz, and Dorivã. The representation of the Tocantins "sertaneja" identity, from the late 20th century to the current decade of the 21st century, considered the reflections of authors such as Oliveira (2016), Storniolo (2020), and Lima and Meneses (2020), who pointed out the Tocantins identity based on the history of the state's creation and recognized regional music as a feature of that identity. Thus, within this historical process, the guiding question of this study asks how the language of Tocantins regional music shows the identity of the hinterland as a historical space. For this theme to be developed, the objectives led us to seek, in four regional songs of Tocantins, the characteristic representation that gives them a regionalist identity and how much the image of this space may be linked to space and power interests. Also, to see how much the narrative in the lyrics of songs by regionalist representatives demonstrates the hinterland within a territorial context pre- existing the creation of the state of Tocantins, since the historiography of northern Goiás until 1989, with traditions and customs also marked by an agropastoral society, became the setting for the Tocantins hinterland space. The qualitative research used bibliographic reflections that supported affirming what in the language of the songs represented the hinterland in the Tocantins "sertaneja" identity. These songs demonstrated a sertão that is not restricted only to physiographic space. However, they pointed out an identity that permeates contexts of spaces, where these, same culturally transformed, carry the essence of the sertanejo experience.