CoLingPB/Agreste Urbano/Esperança_/brPB06_g2aM01

Abstract

Informant brPB06_g2aM01, Urban Agreste, Esperança, Corpus “O Linguajar Paraibano”. WEB page: www.cchla.ufpb.br/colingpb. Oral interview (original duration: 29'31"), with sound recording in WAV format (22,500 Hz), orthographically transcribed in PDF format, and in TRS format (to open this file, it is necessary to install the Transcriber program, available at http: //trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php). Topics covered: potato and its production; carnival group; rag dolls and cooperativism; bumba meu boi, Pereira and its characters; carnival in the past; Chinese cavaco; charangas; cinema; regional food; neglect of public policies; dispute over the red and blue cords; public education; hospital closure; Nossa Senhora das Mercês party; Nossa Senhora do Bom Conselho party; June party and typical drinks; parties celebrations and types of entertainment; typical June festivals from the Northeast; Frei Damião; foundation of the city; foundation of the Massabielle District; sisal, automobile, sugar and chain factories; carnival marches; memory of the city's history; carnival music; regional music; songs sung in the profane pastoral; songs played on the loudspeakers of the amusement parks for lovers; profane pastoral; folkloric pernonagens; historical characters city ​​folks and their professions; position in the economic ranking of Paraíba; sound postcard; preservation of religious customs; St. John's festival typical dance; Ash Wednesday and its traditions; representation of indigenous tribes; Saint John and the St. John's festival typical dance; catholic temple; community union for the realization of St. John's festival.