Companhias de swingueira em João Pessoa : práticas de resistência.

Abstract

Pagode baiano or swingueira, as it is called here, is a musical genre from the state of Bahia that became very popular all over the country, gaining variations both in its nomenclature and in its forms of manifestation. In João Pessoa - PB, where the focus of this research is, this rhythm gained great popular repercussion in the late 1990s, with the emergence of swingueira dance companies in the outlying districts of the city. However, despite being a very active cultural practice with a large number of practitioners in the city, swingueira is commonly marginalized, stereotyped and discriminated, causing recurrent difficulties for the companies to continue their work. Besides these problems, we also noticed a great scarcity of theoretical references about the theme in question in the city of João Pessoa. Therefore, based on the experiences of the author as a member of the swingueira movement in the city and an undergraduate dance student at UFPB, this research has as main goal to trace a critical-reflexive study about how the stereotypes formed about swingueira directly affect this movement in the cultural-artistic scene of the city, also enabling the expansion of works about the theme in question, so that more approaches about swingueira in João Pessoa can emerge.