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The Popular Culture Movement of Recife(1959-1964)

Grant number: 11/15451-2
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Master
Start date: March 01, 2012
End date: August 31, 2013
Field of knowledge:Humanities - History - History of Brazil
Principal Investigator:Marcos Francisco Napolitano de Eugenio
Grantee:Fabio Silva de Souza
Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

AbstractThis project gives an account at the cultural effervescence of the year 1960, in Recife, in the perspective conveyed by sections of the intelligentsia and the local student movement, gathered in the Popular Culture Movement, MCP. We intend to discuss the political and social context of Pernambuco, as a contribution to the analysis of this period of political and cultural history of Brazil. Assuming that artists and intellectuals of the MCP, coming from many leftists who formed the front of Recife (Catholic, social democratic, labor and communist), eventually developed political and cultural actions and interests that did not correspond to direct political factions of his party, due to direct contact with the grassroots communities. Drawing on access that only recently become possible to a unexplored documentation on the MCP, we will investigate the specificities, debates and contradictions of the movement. We try to show that the plurality of political and cultural perspectives of intellectuals and their leaders gathered in the MCP and internal tensions challenged the attempt at political exploitation of it by one or other of the political forces of the "Frente do Recife", giving new meanings to those cultural activities.

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SOUZA, Fabio Silva de. The Popular Culture Movement in Recife (1959-1964). 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.