Batucadeiros : educação musical por meio da percussão corporal

This present work has investigated the music education with children and adolescents in the context of a social project localized in Recanto das Emas, Distrito Federal. Had as main objective to investigate the educational process by means of body percussion in project Batucadeiros. The work was divided in five chapters: Chapter one: Investigated the phenomenon of body percussion contextualizing his presence with the Brazilian culture, in the process of Portuguese colonization from the influence of indigenous and African roots. The second chapter has researched the body music education, in the context of an educated society and the human discorporealization process in the process of civilization.Chapter three talks about the methodology, and chapters four and five talks about data analysis. The theoretical framework is based on historical and cultural approach, that part of the understanding of music as a human activity that can be experienced by all. The methodological approach is collaborative and Dialogic, with the participation of all those involved in the Batucadeiro's project, having as main instrument the conversation circles.