THE NORTHEAST DROUGHT, THE MIGRATORY PRACTICES AND THEIR REPRESENTATIONS IN JACKSON PANDEIRO MUSICOGRAPH

Abstract

Several artists attempted to represent in their works the Northeast region in its most different practices, images and memories. In music, for instance, we find several musical repertories of singers whogave voice to such Northeastern diversity. One of them was the popular singer Jackson do Pandeiro (1919-1982), who among various themes present in his repertoire also sang the Northeastern culture. Our reaserch has as main objective to observe the droughtrepresentations and migration inserted of Jackson do Pandeiro’s musicography to contextualizate how the droughties were always present in Brazil’s Northeastern region bringing consequently the diverse migratory practices for state capitals or other Brazilian states. To theoretically support this endeavor, we dialogued with some researches that helped us to conceive this work, such as Villa (2000) and Ab'Sáber (1999). As a methodological path we analyze several songs, to, minutely, enter the "Jacksoniano" repertoire which is our main source and we articulate our discussions about the representations in the Jackson do Pandeiro’s musicography, the Northeast’s drought and the migratory practices. We believe that this research will serve to demonstrate the importance of Jackson do Pandeiro for popular Brazilian music and to understand representations and visions of cultural practices in the Northeast.