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histórias, trajetórias e contextos de mestres alabês soteropolitanos

Abstract

This article presents and discusses stories, trajectories and dynamics of religious drum masters (Alabês) from Salvador, Bahia, their connections and contexts, announcing a socio-religious collectivity. Initially, data from interviews with three drum master are shared, emphasizing some approximations regarding their formative processes as candomblé musicians and sociocultural conditions. Bibliographic and ethnographic data are added to the informations provided from the interviews, thus providing an overview of this collective of Alabês masters and their surroundings. Finally, the scope of this religious collectivity is expanded from the presentation of transits and connections between religious temples to which the interviewees have ties, thus demonstrating how imbricated are the music of candomblé and its characters with the events and dynamics of religion in a general way. From the particular to the universal, the aims is to demonstrate how these layers overlap, being, at the same time, constituted and constituents of this universe.