“Malungo Ngoma Vem!” - Por uma Pedagogia Malungo

Abstract

This thesis aimed to establish, through research writing, a dialogue with the universe of drums, both as instruments and as a percussive allegory of the memory of the city of Pelotas. This dialogue unfolded through the interaction between the teacher/researcher/musician and five Black men who are part of the percussive culture of the city, particularly in drum music. The work embraces ancestry as an epistemological principle articulated with a Benjaminian perspective and surrealistic ethnography as a writing technique. It thus advocates the formulation of what is claimed as Malungo Pedagogy, forged in ancestry, orality, and the musicality of drums. Malungo Pedagogy is proposed as an alternative to the impoverishment of experience and as a potency in the production of knowledge, with the strength and rhythm of drums serving as its narrative essence.