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A patchwork: the music scene in São Paulo between the late nineteenth and early twentieth

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Author(s):
Denise Sella Fonseca
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes; Virginia de Almeida Bessa; Carlos Gonçalves Machado Neto
Advisor: José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes
Abstract

Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, São Paulo music scene had as one of its protagonists theatrical genres aimed at a wider audience and had music as a central element. The musical and theatrical criticism expressed the desire to regenerate the taste of the general public through the lyrical genre and concert music, conflicting with this other kind of drama, whose main objective was to provide fun, above all artistic and literary pretension. Although each of these genres have conventions and dynamic of its own functioning, the term \"teatro de revista\" became a benchmark that currently remains - and served to appoint a much larger set of modalities including operettas, burletas, mágicas, vaudeville , zarzuelas, fantasias and comedies with music. Important in the production and dissemination of music in urban space before the emergence and consolidation of electronic media, setting the study of the production and dissemination of theater accompanied by music circuit contributes to the understanding of music and popular culture scenary in São Paulo (AU)

FAPESP's process: 11/03779-3 - Musical Theatre in São Paulo in Belle Époque
Grantee:Denise Sella Fonseca
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master