The problem of tradition in Jacob do Bandolim's trajectory: comments on choro's official history

Author(s)

Gabriel Sampaio Souza Lima Rezende

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2014-06-05

Examining board members

José Roberto Zan; Leopoldo Garcia Pinto Waizbort; Sérgio Paulo Ribeiro de Freitas; Antônio Rafael Carvalho dos Santos; Almir Côrtes Barreto

• Advisor: Mario Vieira de Carvalho; José Roberto Zan

Abstract

The title given to this work creates a correspondence between "the problem of tradition in Jacob do Bandolim's trajectory" and "comments on choro's official history". This correspondence unfolds itself in two main dimensions. The first relates to the central hypothesis of this study, namely, that the trajectory of Jacob Pick Bittencourt was a turning point in the history of choro. In order to bring to the foregound the elements that are able to prove it, the focus of the research is set on "the problem of tradition": on the one hand, it was this problem that organized and mobilized a large part of the efforts that the mandolinist dismissed in its activities in the field of popular music and, secondly, it is the same problem that organizes the current ways of narrating choro's history and, therefore, that covers with meanings that trajectory. From this situation arises the second dimension, since the realization of the proposed task imply, at the same time, make comments on the conventional way of narrate choro's history. In other words, analyze the problem of tradition in Jacob do Bandolim's trajectory is also to discuss the process of building a narrative by which becomed usual to transmit a particular reading of the history of this genre that reaches us in present (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/17888-9 - The invention of choro: an inquiry about the trajectory of Jacob do Bandolim
• Grantee: Gabriel Sampaio Souza Lima Rezende
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate