Cultura Popular: poetas da literatura de cordel no Brasil

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to show that the thematic mapping of Cordel Literature in Brazil promotes democratization and access to art and culture. The preliminary survey identified approximately three thousand names of popular poets, whose works need to be preserved, whereas the preservation and dissemination of informational content about life and work of Brazilian popular poets and the subjects they addressed in their verses, assist in the transmission of culture from generation to generation and ownership of the subject of the aspects of cultural heritage. This is a research with qualitative approach to document type. And hopefully, with this research to achieve the preservation and dissemination of informational content about life and work of Brazilian popular poets, the online source of information construction to subsidize academic research in popular culture of the area and give visibility to the popular poet in its multiple dimensions.