Cultura, desenvolvimento e tecnologia: construção e design de tambores e suas redes

Abstract

It is in the field of Brazilian culture that the richness and development of maracatu de baque virado is revealed with its dances, songs, costumes, percussion orchestra, as well as the construction of an identity marked by social and political dynamics. Immersed in the percussion orchestra, this research emphasizes the drums and the figure of the drum builder with knowledge and technological practices that performs the manufacture and maintenance of the maracatu drums of baque virado. This drum reveals the multiplicity of human and non-human elements in sociotechnical controversies, which weave a complex network of mediators and intermediaries. The methodology of this research seeks to reveal the construction of drums, sounds, technological processes and income generation based on the Actor-Network theory, through open and semi-structured interviews, with the resource of Controversy Cartography and Oligopticon-Maps. The results of this research reveal the fragility of the cultural sector due to the health crisis of Covid-19, generating a series of affectations for the manufacture of the artifact, the increase in prices of materials, the stoppage of the cultural sector and the Aldir Blanc law injecting breath into the cultural sector. It describes the strategies used by the drum builder during the Covid-19 pandemic in the manufacture of the drum (my first instrument), the service at Toninho's joinery and, recently, the resumption of the cultural sector with maracatu workshops and production of drums for maracatuzeiros. From these results, the Oligopticon-Maps were elaborated allowing an immersion in the controversies of the networks revealed in the research. The conclusion of this research is the diversity of elements and technologies in the manufacture of the artifact and the ability to generate income with the artifacts.