Analytical disputes on the Diamantina’s musicality’s touristification : the case of vesperatas

Abstract

This article aims to analyze theoretically and empirically the touristification diamantinense musical tradition. Referring to vesperatas, main attraction of the mining town of Diamantina, it will seeks, at first, questioning to discuss the analyzes that explore the relationship between tourism and musical tradition in terms of distortion or cultural hybridity. Secondly, the objective is to demonstrate that vesperatas are a tourist product which reference to the traditional is just a way to make it legible to a given commodity available to the consumer. Building on the argument that historical novelty brought by globalization is the formation of an international collective imaginary, the vesperatas are understood as a commodity whose consumption is based on the production of signs linked to the global music industry and the imaginary created around the historic mining towns.