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I have triggers and drums: aesthetic impasses and political engagement in songs of Sérgio Ricardo (1958 - 1967)

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Author(s):
Mariana Bueno de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Marília. 2018-09-28.
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências. Marília
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Advisor: Marcelo Augusto Totti
Abstract

This research addresses the engagement of bossa nova by recording work of Sergio Ricardo’s analysis, deadlocks time of a generation of artists who struggled on the threshold of artistic engagement, the politicization of the arts and the emergence of a cultural industry in Brazil. In this period we have a developmentalist project that contemplates a large part of the middle class in Brazil, from the same middle class a group of artists and intellectuals who are completely related to an ideological and political dimension produced in previous decades, 1920s, 1930s and 1940s cultural modernism, regional literature, etc.) and use art to thematize issues that politics can not solve. Sérgio Ricardo is one of those artists who are sensitive to these issues of the national reality, the problems of social inequality and poverty, but they do not come from this class by which they are sensitized. We will demonstrate how Sérgio Ricardo’s work reflects, simultaneously, a fruitful synthesis and mismatch in the process of politicizing art and the artist in the 1950s and 1960s, with reference to the national-popular issue and the engagement of intellectuals and artists. Artists against the military dictatorship established in 1964. Sérgio Ricardo demonstrates through his songs that it is possible to take on the bossa nova Nacionalista side without abandoning the aesthetic formalities of bossa nova Intimista. He approached the popular musicians, but never denied the influence of jazz or classical music, spoke to the roots of Brazilian popular music without abdicating the poetic-musical quality of bossa nova. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 16/06533-9 - Tenho Gatilhos e Tambores: aesthetic deadlocks and political engagement in the work of Sérgio Ricardo (1958-1967)
Grantee:Mariana Bueno de Oliveira
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master