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Normal 0 21 This paper discusses the historiographical construction of Brazilian musical nationalism by some of its foundational texts. It deals with the mapping of conceptions of national identity in the context of “scientificist” theories that influenced Brazilian social-anthropological thought, literary criticism, and, as proposed by this author, music historiography. The “scientificist” theories were disseminated by the so-called “Recife School” and influenced the authors of the first books Normal 0 21 the history of Brazilian music. The “Recife School” explained the “national character” according to two theories: the racial and the geographic determinism. In its early phase Brazilian musicology felt the impact of one of the current theories of “national character”, particularly based on geographic determinism. Renato Almeida’s Historia da Musica no Brasil (1928) is analyzed under the light of the “Brazilian obnubilation” theory, proposed by Araripe Junior, who adopted mesologism and considered the parameter “environment” (climate and geographical set) the predominant factor in the formation of culture. This paper offers a comparative analysis between Araripe Junior’s ideas and the text in which Almeida proposes that the formation of the Brazilian “national character” was due mostly to the impact of nature on man and his adaptation to the hostile environment of the tropics, manifesting itself in his music. Local landscape was a historiographical criterion not only as a nationalist topic, but mostly as a kind of musical “expression” recognized as Brazilian. |
