ABSTRACT
The article deals with the tuning of musical instruments in the religious and festive context of the folias in Taboquinha, a rural locality in the city of São Francisco, northern Minas Gerais. The text draws attention to the dynamics involved in the tuning process, understanding the phenomenon as a collective practice that takes place in interactions between people through an expressive and communicative economy involving gestures, objects, body movements, looks, words and sounds. In this sense, the question that animates this exercise is not so much what the tuning is or what is tuning, but: how the instruments are tuned. What happens when the practice is performed? What effects does tuning produce? How does tuning relate to other situations and moments in the ritual cycle of folias? The article also suggests that tuning, on the one hand creates a framework, a sense of collectivity and integration, on the other is permeated with dangers, risks and uncertainties, making it a constant search, a continuous movement, a threshold between tensions, heights and frequency.
KEYWORDS:
Ritual; Popular Culture; Folia; Music; Tuning