Local musicking in Mário de Andrade and Fernando Lopes Graça's journalism

• Grant number: 18/26529-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2020
• End date: April 29, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Flávia Camargo Toni
• Grantee: Guilhermina Maria Lopes de Carvalho Santos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/05318-7 - Local musicking: new pathways for ethnomusicology, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/09048-2 - Local musicking in Mário de Andrade and Fernando Lopes-Graça's musical journalism, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Intellectuals that expressed, in their work as creator, researcher, critic and educator, concernings about the relations of art music and local traditions, were central figures in the 20th century. Their texts (essays, pedagogical works, criticism) are an important source for the study of the aesthetical debates of the time. In this project, we propose an analysis of selected journalistic texts of two of these personalities: Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) in Brazil and Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994) in Portugal. We chose musical journalism considering its broader circulation, its character of immediate response to the debates of the time and its propositive nature, which can help us understand the development of their aesthetical thought. A preliminary litérature review pointed some central questions, from which we can part in order to delimitate the scope of the articles to be written. Between the themes we can highlight the dichotomies local/universal, popular/art music, rural/urban, and the relation between music and language. The analysis of the corpus, in relation to referred texts and personalities, can contribute to contextualize the authors in relation to European and American aesthetical and ideological thought of their time and, mainly, to trace musical circuits and their particularities. (AU)