The folklore of carioca samba: memory, history and identity

Authors

  • Tânia da Costa Garcia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n34-2017-1-04

Abstract

In younger nations, like the American ones, parallel to the popular-rural repertoire defined as national folklore, the urban popular music disseminated by mass media began to dispute space among the nationalityforming elements. To legitimate it as a representation of the national, it had to be folclorized, invent a tradition for it. This article analyzes how the construction and consecration of Rio de Janeiro samba as a symbol of Brazilianness takes place in three moments of the twentieth century. At first, in a less programmatic manner, by the memorialists; then, in 1930’s Rio de Janeiro, followed by formalization of the discourse of preservation and nationalization of the Carioca musical past, in 1940-1950; eventually, in 1970-1980, with the Funarte (National Art Foundation) Department of Popular Music, manage by Hermínio Bello de Carvalho, samba is officially declared as an expression of Brazilian culture.

keywords: Popular music; samba; folklore.

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Author Biography

Tânia da Costa Garcia

Livre-docente em História pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp-Franca). Doutora em História pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professora do Departamento de História e do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Unesp- Franca. Autora, entre outros livros, de O it verde e amarelo de Carmen Miranda (1930-1946). São Paulo: Annablume/Fapesp, 2004.

Published

2017-10-03

How to Cite

Garcia, T. da C. (2017). The folklore of carioca samba: memory, history and identity. ArtCultura, 19(34). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n34-2017-1-04

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Dossiê: Música folclórica: entre o campo e a cidade