Abstract

MONTI, Ednardo Monteiro Gonzaga do. Musical Terminology and Origin of Fado: political culture and national identity in the musicological studies of Mário de Andrade, published in the Illustração Musical magazine (1930-1931). Educ. Rev. [online]. 2017, vol.33, n.65, pp.67-83. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.53221.

The horizon of this article is the questions about modernism and their relations with political culture, from the perspective of a national identity, in the musicological studies Musical Terminology and the Origin of Fado (Terminologia Musical e a Origem do Fado), both written by Mário de Andrade and published in Illustração Musical magazine. The periodic is the main documented source used in the present study. The magazine, managed by Maestro Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez, circulated among musicians, educators, theatergoers, concert halls, conservatories and music schools in Brazil, through the years 1930 and 1931. The discussion proposed here indicates that Andrade emphasized the necessity of a nationally original musical terminology and tried to rescue the Brazilian origin of Fado, but without devaluing the Portuguese production and acceptance of the musical style. It is perceived that the construction of a national musical terminology hints at possible relations between the modernist movement and the political culture that had origin in Vargas Government. In addition, at the same time, this construction meant a continuity that countered the opinions of the critics who detracted the modernism, considering it just an event, with specific date and glamorous public (that is, the Modern Art Week, which happened at the city of São Paulo, in February 1922). It is also understood that Mário de Andrade proposed the discovery of the origin of fado as part of the process of consolidation of Brazilian nationalist culture consolidation, which, able to gather resources from the Government, aimed to expand the nationalist Art growing in that period.

Keywords : Mário de Andrade; Political culture; National identity; Musical terminology; Fado..

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