STYLIZED JUNINAS QUADRILHAS: A POSSIBILITY OF LEISURE FOR PLAYERS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SANTO ESTÊVÃO-BA

Abstract

This study constitutes a scientific investigation with the aim of analyzing how the participation of players in groups of stylized June gangs in the municipality of Santo Estêvão-BA can be seen as a leisure practice. A field study was carried out with a qualitative approach and data collection was carried out through a virtual questionnaire. For the analytical treatment of the data, the technique of content analysis was performed from Bardin's perspective, from which two categories of analysis emerged: 1) leisure as fun and rest; which dealt with the understanding that the players have about leisure; 2) pleasure and well-being: leisure in the June gangs; which referred to the participation of players in groups of stylized June square dances and the functions they attribute to leisure. It was evident that the players consider their participation in the groups of June gangs a leisure practice, associated with pleasure and well-being and that, despite all the inherent subjectivity, the motivation and participation of the players in the stylized groups of June gangs in the municipality of Santo Estêvão, it is possible to identify characteristics referring to leisure activities, both in relation to its areas of interest, as well as in relation to the functions attributed to it by the theorists who based this study.