PERRÉ, A SHARED DIALOGIC PATTERN

Abstract

From a dialogical approach to Pernambuco's popular culture developed between 2003 and 2023, I observed the recurrence of the rhythm of the 'toque de perré' of the caboclinhos of Pernambuco, as a common expressive resource present in local sound making and in other musical practices in the Northeast region of Brazil. In this arena of musical productions, the processes of expressive language acquisition take as reference the countermetric formula 3+3+2 and its culturally established variants (Kolinsky apud Sandroni, 2001, p.21), which structure performative consciousness as a central and shared pattern of interpretation. Based on a dialogic perspective of analysis, this approach followed a collaborative line of data collection (Campbell and Lassiter, 2015) based on participant observation. The problematic that inductively emerged on the ground revealed decolonial processes (Quijano, 2005) of disinformation, even though in customs there are still links between local expressive practices and the perré pattern of performance.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.008-008