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Pilgrims of the deep sertão: an ethnography of music of Elomar Figueira Mello

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Author(s):
Andre Kees de Moraes Schouten
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:
John Cowart Dawsey; Jorge Mattos Brito de Almeida; Jerusa de Carvalho Chnaiderman
Advisor: John Cowart Dawsey
Abstract

Understood as an ethnography of music, this work focuses on the music-making of the Brazilian northeastern composer Elomar Figueira Mello, in his intention to comunicate an experience of the ?sertão? through both his records and his performances in the metropolitan theatres and concert rooms. Using two images that emerge from the figure of the composer, constructed through record analyses and fieldwork experience, this work risk interpreting of his work as a synthetic experience, liminoid, able to communicates a traditional world in the age of mechanical reproduction. (AU)