Ser moçambicano, ontem e hoje: percepções e significados da moçambicanidade através da música moçambicana para gerações do período pós-independência na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This monograph, entitled “Being Mozambican, yesterday and today: perceptions and meanings of Mozambicanness through Mozambican music for post-independence generations in the city of Maputo”, analyzes the perceptions and meanings that Mozambicans attribute to Mozambican music as a way of representing Mozambicanness. As a basic theory, we opted for the phenomenological analysis of Alfred Schutz (1979) to capture the meanings and experiences of social reality and cross-reference them with the perceptions and meanings attributed to Mozambicanness and Mozambican music as a representation of that Mozambicanness, through concepts such as meaning, national identity and Mozambican music. In methodological terms, we opted for the qualitative approach; the method of procedure was the case study. In terms of data collection, we used semi-structured interviews, observation and bibliographical research. For data analysis, we used content analysis, which led us to the conclusion that Mozambicans have a polysemic perception of Mozambicanness, and the meanings they attribute to Mozambican music are different for the two groups studied, however, the converging perception is that Mozambican music should refer to the local reality, either through the genre and/or content transmitted.