The sound's dynamics in street markets during the Covid-19 pandemic: a case study at Tabuleiro Market, Maceió-AL, Brazil

Faced with the pandemic caused by Covid-19, with recommendation of social isolation, large part of the population with lower purchasing power, living in the peripheries of Brazil, has faced difficulties in meeting the social isolation recommended by the World Health Organization. In these spaces, sociabilities are exercised in public areas of the city, such as street markets, stage of various social, cultural and economic dynamics. With various sounds, street markets mark the local soundscape. This study analyzes the sound impact caused by the commercial nucleus of one of the largest street markets in the State of Alagoas and the relationship of this impact with the acoustic perception of users, from the scenarios: before and during the pandemic. This is the Tabuleiro Market, located in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. The methodological steps were applied: characterization of the object of study, land use and occupation; survey of objective sound data (acoustic measurements) and subjective data (questionnaires applied to users). Results indicate that even in the face of the pandemic, this street market still resists. For users, sounds related to the buying and selling process are taken as a natural part of the street market, so that its absence would rule it out.