Bumba-meu-boi de zabumba de mestre Leonardo: memória e tradição

Abstract

This Final Course Work focused on analyzing the Bumba-meu-boi of Zabumba by Mestre Leonardo, from the point of view of its memory and preservation of the popular tradition of Maranhão. To clarify the origin of the Bumba-Boi of Zabumba as an element of Afro-Brazilian culture, to demonstrate the meaning of the Boi of Mestre Leonardo Zabumba accent for its members. In this course, the history of the Bumba-meu-boi1 of Liberdade was addressed, in the Zabumba accent considered by different researchers, among them Michol Carvalho (1995), the oldest accent. The aim was to understand the history of the Bumba-meu-boi of Maranhão, a traditional festival of the popular culture of Maranhão, the history and emergence of the Boi of Liberdade, the cycle of the Boi of Liberdade that begins with the rehearsal, the training, the baptism ritual and the ceremony of the death of the ox that marks the end of the festivities of the year. The classification of Bumba-meu-boi from Maranhão according to Azevedo Neto (1983) is also analyzed. Arguments about the emergence of the boi in the 18th century, and how it began in its initial form and the process of exclusion that the bumba-meu-boi zabumba accent has endured over time will be analyzed in this work. Tradition and Modernity are also given as important aspects of authenticity and spontaneity of a people. This final course work is characterized as a participatory field research, the study was idealized through bibliographic research. To collect data from the organizers, audio recordings, photos, observations, notes and semi-structured interviews were used.