Beetween practices and discourses: Gilberto Mendes, Willy Corrêa de Oliveira and the Brazilian field of classical music post 1980

Authors

  • Carla Delgado de Souza Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2017.53.3.07

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to understand how some changes in the Brazilian classical music field since the late 1970s happened, through the analysis of the trajectory of two important Brazilian composers: Gilberto Mendes and Willy Corrêa de Oliveira. I noticed that a pulverization of aesthetical fights and movements not occurred only in Brazil, but also in the Euroamerican context in that moment. Those alterations were connected to political and aesthetical perceptions. Besides that, the discourse in favor of an approximation of popular artistic creation was present in the creative process of these two composers, in a movement characterized by the musical field as “aesthetical overture” or “post-modernism musical”. Therefore, I seek to demonstrate the process that led to the dissolution of some practices and discourses of important social actors of avant-gard music in the period between 1960 and 1980 in Brazil.

Keywords: music, avant-gard, modernity.

Author Biography

Carla Delgado de Souza, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Doutora em Antropologia Social pela UNICAMP e professora adjunta do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da UEL/PR.

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Published

2017-11-16

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 3 (2017): September/December

Section

Dossiê: Artes e criatividade: identidades e diferenças entre o local e o global

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