Ética sonora e suas implicações na sociedade de João Pessoa

Abstract

Sound and music have representative and complex places in society, both interrelated with conflicts, interactions, and issues that permeate physical, objective, symbolic, and cultural dimensions in general. In this context, this dissertation is inserted in the core of the debates about the ethical relations between sound, music, human beings, and society, having as the locus of research singularities in the city of João Pessoa. Based on motivation from personal, humane, professional and academic issues, this thesis presents, discusses, analyzes and reflects on the ways in which the society of João Pessoa has dealt with sonorous and musical dimensions in general from interactions, conflicts, and challenges that permeate the sonorous ethics in contemporary times. The methodological basis of the research was constituted in fieldwork developed between 2016 and 2019, with participant observation, questionnaires, focal groups, interviews, and creation of virtual spaces. The epistemological and theoretical dimensions evidenced by the bibliographical research show studies on sound, music, environment, and human relations, bringing together areas such as ethnomusicology, ethics, ecology, geography, physics, sociology, law, communication, anthropology, and philosophy. The approach of these dimensions is lead by the systemic idea that guides things and events in the world. The results demonstrate the need to create a collective culture that considers complimentary and mandatory characters between the physical and symbolic dimensions of sound and music in society and their impacts on human life. The interpretative constructions undertook to lead to a grounding in the concept of sonorous ethics as a social praxis that congregates the symbiosis between the physical and symbolic dimensions of sound and music observed in the resulting presence, insertion, materialization, and meanings in social contexts. From this concept, I argue that the debate about the sonorous should be on the basis of our creation and construction of a collective culture about the environmental aspect. This teasing enables various sectors of society to establish interrelationships and connections for educational measures that are both a guide for and guided by the construction of a level of consciousness, connecting our listening to a sound proposition. By assuming and understanding sound as a fundamental aspect for coexistence, as much as any other environmental element and in a degree of importance befitting all the senses, we can problematize the boundary between silence and silencing, between what is placed in relativity or relativism, and we will be closer to holistic understanding and to the systemic aspect of sonorous ethics in our bodies, our minds, and our lives.