The Quilombola Women of COSNEC (Group of Black Consciousness of Cel Xavier Chaves) and their artistic actions: Ressignification and empowerment

Abstract

This study, which uses qualitative research and ethnographic method, aims to verify - from the musical performances shown through the singing and dancing of the women of COSNEC (Black Consciousness Group of Cel Xavier Chaves in Minas Gerais) The transformation that took place in their lives, social and affective, for the dissemination of the culture of black origin, in order to practice, at the present time, the values of their slave ancestors in the Catholic and Afro-descendant syncretic context.