Narratives and songs: geomusicalities in the northeastern backlands

Abstract

This work is the result of a methodological proposal entitled "geomusicalities in the Northeastern backlands", developed at the Laboratory of Studies on Space, Culture and Politics (LECgeo) of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology (IFCE) in Quixadá, integrating the teaching, research and extension tripod in an undergraduate course in Geography in the backlands of Ceará, in 2023. It emerged from the observation that, by being inserted in the backlands context, students of this course are in constant access to songs historically linked to narratives that portrayed and continue to address the daily life of the region, be it social, political and/or cultural, still subject to coronelismo, droughts and social tragedies. Methodologically, the hermeneutic approach was used, consisting of identifying discursive meanings in the lyrics of the songs, observing explicit or implicit representations and meanings about the backlands. Thus, a didactic-pedagogical presentation was held during the 6th Geography Week of IFCE, for which an intentional sampling of songs linked to the backlands was carried out, building a line of discussion on how such musical influences reinforced stereotypes of the region. Based on the concepts of landscape and culture, the objective was to analyze and exemplify the temporal musical evolution between the 1940s and 2000s, which represents political subjection, but also incorporates new ways of understanding the backlands of the Northeast.