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- Title
Nacionalismo musical: o samba como arma de combate ao fado no Brasil dos anos 1930.
- Authors
Paranhos, Adalberto
- Abstract
Mirroring what was happening in other parts of the world, the 1930s in Brazil was filled with nationalist feelings of all sorts. The musical scene was by no means alienated from a very generalized mood (shared by both Left and Right) that viewed foreign products as the incarnation of evil. While samba emerged as a national icon, popular music did incorporate some foreign rhythms, such as fado, tango and fox-trot. As a matter of fact, until the mid-1930s, fado met considerable resonance among Brazilian audiences, leading composers such as Orestes Barbosa to condemn it as "a Portuguese thing" that symbolized backwardness. Samba, contrary to rhythms conceived as aliens to Brazil, became a sort of musical shield against the "corruption" of national habits.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MUSIC &; nationalism; SAMBA (Musical genre); FADOS; SYMBOLISM in music; MUSICAL meter &; rhythm; MUSIC
- Publication
ArtCultura, 2012, Vol 14, Issue 24, p19
- ISSN
1516-8603
- Publication type
Article