Geografia e música: um estudo das representações sobre o espaço na produção fonográfica de Francisco Beltrão

Abstract

This present work deliberates on the relationship between societies and music, demonstrating that music has been a subject of geographical studies since the inception of scientific geography. Music encapsulates elements of synthesizing the relationships that individuals and groups establish with geographical space, encompassing both internal group dynamics and the interpretation of differences vis à-vis other groups. Moreover, music reflects cultural patterns from distinct epochs and mirrors social transformations within a society, actively participating by reiterating the values and socio-economic, political, and cultural insights of the individuals and groups that engage with it. Understanding how societies express themselves artistically - specifically through their musical productions in this case - ensures a comprehensive understanding in unveiling the relations between symbolic forms, discourses (both rhetorical and practical), and the formation of geographical spaces within the tangible historical contexts of relations, actions, conflicts, and concrete movements. With this premise in mind, we focus on the musical productions of artists and groups from Francisco Beltrão to comprehend the significance of culture, landscape, and local/regional history in apprehending and representing Francisco Beltrão as a place and territory. The musical productions under study reveal the contradictions inherent in constructing regional geographical spaces, alongside the geographicity of the actors promoting such representations, thereby converging towards constructing an identity (including a musical one) that references the Southwestern region of Paraná