WHO COMMANDS THE TROUPES? Symbolic disputes for the ''coco de roda tradition from Alagoas''
Coco de Roda alagoano. Tradition. Symbolic disputes. Legitimacy. Memory.
This work investigates the symbolic disputes fought by masters and masters, leaders of youth groups and playovers around the legitimation of a "tradition of the Alagoas wheel coconut". The delimitation of the theme arose from the observation of musical and dancing expressions of the coconut wheel in urban and rural spaces in different cities of Alagoas. I considered the local connections of my interlocutors with the phenomenon of intense field-city migration and the most extensive – global networks. It is intended to investigate, through symbolic disputes, the resignification of this tradition in the production, circulation and reception of knowledge, the intersection between generation/gender/ethnicity/social class and space in popular culture, and the construction of the social memory of the communities in which the research is being developed. The methodological approach is qualitative, associating principles and techniques of Oral History and Ethnography aligned with the intersectional approach. To understand this object of study, we will go through central concepts that guide the study of popular cultures, legitimation and delegitimization processes, discourses of justification, territoriality, resignification and reinvention of popular cultural manifestations and the social construction of collective memory.