THE RITUALISTIC PERFORMANCE OF THE SINGER CLEMENTINA DE JESUS: ELEMENTS OF SUPPORT FOR AN ANCESTRY

Abstract

The objective of this production is to understand through an image of the singer Clementina de Jesus and her stage presentation as a ritualization and manifestation of the sacred. For this approach, we used analyses of some images of the artist, highlighting categories such as: language, gesture, rite, symbol and the song of Clementina de Jesus, who when singing involves the elements described above that express the memory of an ancestry. The systematization is the result of a part of the chapter of Terezinha Lima's dissertation, which was entitled "The Black Eve: Memory of an Ancestry that crossed time". It is understood "The performance", RICOEUR, (1978) "An art that meets elements: rite, language of a symbology establishing a mediation in the rescue of a memory of divine actions, the "mysterious" surroundings of things mediated by a human experience. Subsequently, analysis of bibliographies that enabled the systematization and construction of the present essay. Thus, the following work is based on the assumption that the aforementioned images expressed in the song of Clementina de Jesus to which we refer from the sixties, whose artistic expression that resignified a religiosity and at the same time can attribute values, until then not extinct to this people. Clementina de Jesus, a post-abolition heritage, but she carried with her the burden of a suffering life, memories that worried her, because her childhood could still witness the invisibility of how African peoples were affected.