A educação da atenção nas tessituras do método de ensino UPB (Universo Percussivo Baiano) de Letieres Leite: circularidade, corporeidade e ancestralidade

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the weavings of the Education of Attention in the teaching method of the Bahian maestro Letieres Leite, developed in the socio-educational program Rumpilezzinho – Musical Education Laboratory for Youth. The maestro, who passed away on October 27, 2021, left an enormous legacy for Brazilian culture and world music through his work and through the method Universo Percussivo Baiano (UPB). The UPB is an Afroreferenced music education method that brings to the body an awareness of the clave system through orality, bodily movements, circularity, and ancestry. Disturbed by the lack of teaching materials, research, and concepts capable of addressing African and Afro-diasporic music, Letieres began to develop research and a teaching method that highlight the scientific character and rigor of African matricial music. This research seeks to associate the teaching methodology created by Letieres and applied in professional music education with the Education of Attention: an embodied education that unfolds through the senses and helps us perceive ourselves in/from/with the world, referenced in community knowledge as well as phenomenological and post-structuralist studies. The centrality of the body and of the embodied knowledge/feeling/doing in the Education of Attention is evident in Letieres Leite’s UPB method, as we demonstrated in this work.