Cultura popular e educação musical: atividades musicais para o ensino de música baseadas na obra musical do mestre da cultura popular maranhense Dico Currupião da Ilha

Abstract

This monograph aims to present musical activities for teaching music based on the musical work of the master of popular culture from Maranhão, Dico Currupião da Ilha. Specifically, the study also aims to rescue the origin of the singer and composer Dico Currupião da Ilha, with the intention of investigating Dico's trajectory in bois de discurso on the island of São Luís, specifically seeking to understand the cultural and musical influences that helped him develop his musical personality. It also sought to convey the concepts of popular culture, bumba-meu-boi, and musical education, addressing a little about the study of ethnomusicology and oral tradition to understand the importance of popular culture as content within Basic Education, considering the discipline of music and arts. The methodological approaches used to produce this research followed a qualitative trajectory, based on the application of instruments such as questionnaires, interviews, as well as testimonies from artists, journalists, producers, musicians, owners of bumba-meu-boi groups and people who had contact with the artist during his career in the cultural sphere of Maranhão. Bibliographic and documentary research was also used. As results found in this study, the following characteristics stand out: originality, simplicity and the cultural essence brought by Raimundo Mendes (Dico), within his tunes, melodies, songs and his poems, which were of fundamental importance for the enrichment of the popular culture of Maranhão