Memory and Orality: the viola singing and storytelling in the Cariri region from Ceará

Abstract

It Considers that memory is responsible for the remembrance and knowledge which helps on the construction of the society culture. It Highlights the story telling and the viola singing as manifestations which take advantage of memory to keep themselves alive and to dissociate the (local) culture as a propagation of the own practice of transmitted information through its performance (verses and stories). It questions what approximate these cultural practices, how they are identify and construct themselves in the local conjecture. It aims at elucidating the dialogue produced and expressed from the relations between tradition and orality being the memory the demarcation of the continuity of generations, a way of reaffirming the cultural values of Cariri from Ceará and the contribution of this memory in the construction of individual and collective stories. It analyzes the literature on the topic, considering that both the story telling as the viola singing congregate, in relation to their actors and their oeuvre, a repository of memories of their generation, their people, becoming elements of representation and society connection and its social, economic, political and cultural facets.