IDENTITY, GENDER AND MUSIC IN JAVAÉ FUNERY CHANTS

Abstract

This text addresses the corner funerary women Javaé as an emerging genre of performative contexts. The wails and cries called iburu, in turn, are run by women during periods of mourning. Consideration will be given initially, the relationship of these chants with narrative and myth-cosmological, then the categories of native theory of music obtained through field research which highlight aspects of these chants as improvised compositions, vocal music, and musicalization narratives entered into a performative process that syn­thesize gender identities affections such as nostalgia, longing and pain in ex­teriorized sound poetic forms. Keyword: chants, gender, identity, Javaé.