O lambadão em Cuiabá e Várzea Grande

Abstract

This paper investigates the arise and functionality of the cultural circuit of lambadão, popular urban music genre produced in the Baixada Cuiabana’s region, and the transformations which it has suffered in the last decades. It is about a circuit that involves the specialized nightclubs focused in the promotion of events of this genre in Cuiabá and Varzea Grande. The research shows initially, the history of the first bands and keeps on listing e registering the ones that continued expanding the genre until the latest generations. Partial data show that some bands are active, in higher or lower intensity, at the Baixada Cuiabana. What we see as the cultural circuit of lambadão includes, beyond the religious feasts, events and the activity of the nightclubs that are specifically focused on this genre. At the communication dimension, it is noted some few media practices by means like CDs and DVDs, the use of technological tools like social networks or internet sites that allow the disclosure of the music in a geographic space beyond the Great Cuiabá and the repercussion of the genre over time. The leaders of these studies are the musician that created “hibridações culturais”, Nestor García Canclini, and the creater of “folkcommunication”, Luiz Beltrão. Musicians whom are specially driven by the comprehension of the urban public attitudes, which create their own cultural manifestations and reinvent their rites of social linking. The approaching method used was the qualitative research with semi-structured interviews, also the bibliographic studies, photographic records and non-involving observation. With the research’s progress was noted that the Circuit is expanding in the most diverse ways, whether in the opening of new spaces in the Cuiabá capital or even in Varzea Grande, where the Circuit was already consolidated. These new spaces include even restaurants, which at weekends become show houses. While some new appreciator’s groups of this genre emerged from facebook and whatsapp some others came up from some specific band’s fan club, and others chose to organize themselves to make special shirts like uniforms which identify themselves in events. When you observe this you can notice the strength that this genre has been reaching over the time in the whole Baixada Cuiabana.