The present work seeks to conceptualize the memory, practice and cultural representations of
the Kalunga people, more precisely in the Kalunga – Tinguizal community, describing and
arguing the community under study, in order to understand and explain the orality and
musicality, from their local culture through the Folia of Our Lady of the Rosary, where it
becomes apparent the perception of the interrelation of these concepts in the creation of identity
and safeguarding of the intangible heritage of the community. The research was developed
under the qualitative approach. To this end, the initial basis was adopted the Literature Review
of theorists such as:Halbwachs (1968), Goff (1990), Stuart Hall, (2006) and Chartier (1995).To
begin the analysis of the theoretical conception of individual memory and collective memory,
we assume that it is through memory – whether collective or individual – that we will be able
to have access to knowledge, be they, knowledge, values, legacies of a past of living individual
in a world without writing.Individual memory is acquired in the conviviality of different groups,
because it is a constructive act, through which the individual memory has great essence for
explaining the diversity of memories of a subject, which will be socialized in the collective
environment.By realizing that collective memory encompasses its roots, it is possible to ask
one of the members of this collectivity and thus enable the ability to report memories
experienced with their group in this place. The local community paradigm has in cultural
representations one of the great tools to interrelate with cultural practices. Traced by the
resistance of their knowledge, valuing the meaning and meaning of cultural identity.The
remaining quilombola communities developed throughout the formation of all Brazilian
history, with characteristics of land occupation, social, religious and identity organization. The
Tinguizal community has a wide variety of traditions, from the beginning the Kalunga people
in general make use of orality to tell their stories, passing on and ensuring the continuation of
empirical knowledge historically built in the community. Doing so the oral transmission of their
cultural identity to children, grandchildren, nephews, etc. It is the case of the Folia de Nossa
Senhora do Rosário, which still has no written record being passed on to the younger ones
through orality, the elders keep alive in their memory the letters of the songs that are intosated
during the turning of the revelry and also the way of playing the instruments , are empirical
knowledge passed from generation to generation. Thus, it is concluded that it becomes
essentially relevant to realize that orality is a fundamental tool in the perpetuation of the culture
of many peoples, especially the tradition of the Kalunga people, because many centuries ago
the records of the historical trajectory of this people were made only through orality, having
written the record recently. Through their narratives of individual and collective memory the
Kalunga people pass on and keep alive their cultural practices and representations.
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