The House of Vila Verde, in Braga District, is committed to applying the songs to the challenge Minho the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The project is still in embryo, but the president of Green Village Hall, the Social Democrat Antonio Vilela, is confident that the application will succeed and that after the fado and the Alentejo sing, UNESCO will devote even the tradition of si nging to the challenge, whose roots remontarão the tensions of Galician-Portuguese medieval troubadours, kind of lyrical duels, usually scorn and cursing.
The suggestion of applying the songs to the challenge came from Carlos Silva, the group communication and advertising Ideas Five, owner of the newspaper The Vilaverdense . “In the newspapers and on the radio maintain regular contacts with popular singers, and that’s where the idea came,” he explains. “We are at the root of it, but for the application have legs to walk needs a support base that escapes our level,” adds Carlos Silva, being satisfied by the accession of Vila Verde Chamber who “embraced the project and has longer a municipal technical working on it. “
Mayor of Vila Verde confirms what is the” create a team with people who have studied this tradition and can help begin developing the application. ” Antonio Vilela notes that the songs to the challenge “are very much alive” in Minho, and the instrument that normally accompanies the concertina, has more supporters.
Vilela is still committed to bringing together institutions of “various lands” that preserve this tradition, which has “special characteristics” in Minho, but which exists in other regions of the country, particularly in the Douro Litoral and Beira Alta. There will, however, be envisaged in a joint bid with Galicia, as happened in 2005, when an organizing committee comprising Galicia and northern Portugal institutions tried the “Galician-Portuguese oral tradition” was recognized by the UNESCO.
Among many other dimensions, the popular literature to festivals, and language systems to forms of culture related to maritime or agricultural resources, the 2005 application encompassed singing to the challenge, which in Galicia are called “regueifas” because traditionally took place in popular festivals and weddings in which consumed this type of bread.
UNESCO even praised the expertise of the 2005 application, but rejected it, with the main objection to his Excessive amplitude. Hence, this time, emphasizes Antonio Vilela, the aim is to bet on something “more specific” proposing “only sing to the challenge.”
Unlike “regueifas” Galician, already in 2005 were at risk of extinction, singing the Minho challenge cross a vigorous phase. “There is a new generation of singers,” said Carlos Silva, and “in any popular festival is a point of honor that there singing to the challenge, even if not come up to the stage.” And Antonio Vilela adds that, “Sunday in the county seats, it is customary join concertina players, and always comes someone to sing to the challenge.”
And if a few years ago “who sang the challenge was ordinary people, “said Carlos Silva,” now appear people with studies and, in many cases, only live it. ” Artists who run the Portuguese festivals and are also invited to perform in popular festivities organized by Portuguese communities in the world. Perhaps aware that this new phenomenon, which on the one hand keeps the tradition alive, but then takes off some of their spontaneity, can not benefit from the application, the Green Village mayor argues that it is not singing to the challenge that is become a professional, planned and rehearsed show, but rather some of its interpreters, who “also sing on stage and record players.”
The singers the Portuguese challenge have affinities with repentistas from Brazil or Colombia, or with the Argentines and Uruguayans payadores. In all cases, it is two or more singers / versifying and cause it challenge. But the Portuguese stray, to the relief it gives to the topic of sex, or with its insistence on strophic form of the court, to name just two of its many features, configure a unique tradition that this application in motion will now have to document.
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