Abstract
This article, in a first movement, recovers categories of Marxist aesthetics and deals in general terms with the ontogenesis of rhythm, singing, dimensioning human capacity to dominate the surroundings and socially unleashed forces; in a second movement, search the vissungos, working songs, resistance and struggle of blacks enslaved in mining activities are treated, in a discussion of their bases of understanding and social function, when aesthetic categories initially treated in ontogenetic terms reappear and are concretely treated, as part of a specific social formation.
Keywords:
Aesthetics; Marxism; Work songs; Vissungos