Imbrication Between "Popular" and Modernity: A Biographical Musical Project by Claudio Santoro during 1947 and 1957
The musical production of Claudio Santoro between 1947 and 1957, the period in which he embarked on four trips to Eastern Europe and former countries of the Soviet Union, is generally linked by musicology to the nationalist-popular thematic in relationship to the dominant strand on the eastern side...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Música
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Opus |
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| Online Access: | https://www.anppom.com.br/revista/index.php/opus/article/view/489 |
| Summary: | The musical production of Claudio Santoro between 1947 and 1957, the period in which he embarked on four trips to Eastern Europe and former countries of the Soviet Union, is generally linked by musicology to the nationalist-popular thematic in relationship to the dominant strand on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain known as "socialist realism". Nevertheless, in this article we reflect on how Santoro's epistolary and autobiographical writing that articulates some of his musical pieces--without disregard to the this aesthetic-ideological connection--promoted in fact a triple imbrication: the reiteration of neoclassical elements; the insertion of musical expressions associated to subalternized groups in Brazil (“batuques”, “frevos”, etc.) from the viewpoint of the exotic and/or the folklore; and the concomitance of everyday urban and industrial sounds on his cinematic soundtracks. Accordingly, Claudio Santoro represents a composer of singular importance, because through him it is possible to interpret the combinatory possibilities of music, sometimes quite unusual and performative in its relationship to culture, history and biographical pathways. To carry out such an analysis, this article referred to letters sent by Claudio Santoro to the musician and composer Nadia Boulanger and Louis Saguer respectively, now archived in the National Library of France, along with extracts from his unedited autobiography recorded in the 1980's, and an interview he gave in the 1970’s – these last two being under the custody of Santoro's family. |
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| ISSN: | 0103-7412 1517-7017 |