Reverberations of cultural heritage

the bell and the bells office represented in literature, cinema and music

Abstract

In 2009, the Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage (Iphan) determined that the Ringing of the Bells and the Bells Office are considered Cultural Heritage in Brazil. The safeguard process was based on nine cities in Minas Gerais and shows the importance of practices and knowledge inherent to them. In this context, this article investigates how the bell and the bell ringer are portrayed in artistic productions. The study analyzes the performance manifestations from the three functions that the bells perform: percussion, religiosity and signaling (BARBOSA, 2016). Therefore, the object of study are ten artistic productions distributed among literature, cinema and music. The methodology comprises the analysis of productions based on the functions and representation of the cultural asset (CARSALADE, 2016). In this way, the objective of the research is to show the representations of the bell in different artistic productions. The study is also supported by Choay (2000) and Rajewsky (2012), in order to understand the reverberations between cultural heritage and media representations. In the end, we conclude that the language present in the ringing of the bells, as well as the bell ringer's performance, inspired many artistic productions and, in some, there are multiple relationships with the idea of cultural heritage, favoring media representations that are shown as a possible tool. effective for the reverberations of goods of an intangible nature.