A Banda da Polícia Militar do Rio Grande do Norte: música e sociedade

Abstract

This work aims to understand the band of the Military Police of Rio Grande do Norte with their socio and cultural characteristics as well as defining aspects of his musical practice and its relationship with the city of Natal. The ethnographic method was the basis o four investigations, to allow the contextualization of the activities of this group and view their relationship with the surrounding environment, especially the city of Natal. The results show that the formation of the Band presents significant peculiarities that are related directly to its military context and its social practice. The findings indicate that the band has interacted with the surrounding cultural environment throughout its 124 years of existence and even the repertoire performed been influenced, so that while one realizes that maintaining traditional features pertaining to the military, we found the national and international repertoire popular contemporary. Within the institutional implementation structure were observed ritualized actions in everyday musicians and found that there is interaction between music-making and military hierarchy.