The silly girl and the music library.

Author(s)

Valquiria Maroti Carozze

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB)
• Defense date: 2012-08-24

Examining board members

Flávia Camargo Toni; Dorotea Machado Kerr; Therezinha Apparecida Porto Ancona Lopez

• Advisor: Flávia Camargo Toni

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to analyze, interpret and highlight the performance of the musicologist Oneyda Alvarenga, as director of São Paulo Municipal Public Record Collection (current Oneyda Alvarenga Record Collection), bringing to light his profile of poet, musicologist and ethnologist, and of Mario de Andrade, as Director of the City Department of Culture and creator of the section that included the operation of the Municipal Disco Hall; his role as mentor to Oneyda Alvarenga; the efforts of the intellectual modernistic, musicologist and critic of art to promote the search for means of truly national expression of Brazilian music. It is furthermore also proposes examining the own Municipal Public Record Collection, its objectives, its history and culture before and during the government of Getúlio Vargas, the value and meaning of the organization of Brazilian and Latin American musical documentation at the time of the Department of Culture, under the direction of Mario de Andrade, according to the purposes of the musical Americanism advocated by Curt Lange. Still from the point of view of musical Americanism, linking the objectives of cultural diffusion through the work of recovery of the folk music by the Folk Research Mission, the creation of the Municipal Public Record Collection and the Latin American context, reflecting on this undertaking at the Brazilian socio-cultural moment in the decades of 30 and 40 through the bias of Brazilian reality, while managed by the creation and the social universe that provides this creation. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/11693-1 - Oneyda Alvarenga and the musical documentation
• Grantee: Valquíria Maroti Carozze
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master