Community music groups and the impact of the pandemic: a case study of the banda Dona Gabriela

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.214870

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Bandas de música, Covid-19, Comunidades de Prática, Musicar local, Etnografia

Abstract

The Banda Dona Gabriela is a brass band from São João da Boa Vista - SP, with over 80 years of existence, that regularly performs in the central square of the city. Like many community music groups, the Banda Dona Gabriela halted its activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, resuming them in a different way only in May 2022. In this article, we present the history and an ethnography of the band’s activities with the aim of analyzing the impacts and challenges that the pandemic had on the group. Drawing on the concept of Communities of Practice, we analyze the ensemble’s everyday practices and identify endemic tensions in community groups, which, as we argue, were exacerbated by the pandemic.

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Author Biographies

  • João Henrique Amancio Gião, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)'

    Bacharel em Música Popular pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2023). Durante a graduação, pesquisou o musicar da "Banda Dona Gabriela" de São João da Boa Vista - SP, em iniciação científica vinculada ao Projeto Temático Fapesp '"Musicar local: novas trilhas para a etnomusicologia". Além de pesquisador, atua como instrumentista e compositor de trilhas sonoras. Tem como áreas de interesse: etnomusicologia, antropologia, estudos sobre música popular e análise do discurso. E-mail: jhagiao@gmail.com

  • Suzel Ana Reily

    SUZEL ANA REILY é Professora Titular de Etnomusicologia do Departamento de Música do Instituto de Artes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Ela coordena o Projeto Temático FAPESP “O Musicar Local – novas trilhas para a etnomusicologia”. Suas publicações incluem: Voices of the Magi: enchanted journeys in southeast Brazil (Chicago, 2002) e a organização de The Oxford Handbook of Music in World Christianities (com J. Dueck, Oxford University Press, 2016) e Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking (com K. Brucher, Routledge, 2018), contemplado com o 2019 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize. E-mail: sreily@unicamp.br

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2024-08-21

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Gião, João Henrique Amancio, and Suzel Ana Reily. 2024. “Community Music Groups and the Impact of the Pandemic: A Case Study of the Banda Dona Gabriela”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 9 (1): e214870 . https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.214870.