Brasil, década de 1970: un estudio sobre el Instituto Nacional de Música de Funarte

Abstract

This paper is part of a research aimed at formulating a critically updated view on the role played by Funarte in the field of Brazilian music during the 70’s. After collecting some critics’ comments about the organization, we focused on articulating the action of the National Institute of Music with the discourse of identity construction preconized by the Military Government. By tracing the bibliography, researching the documents of the Centre of Documentation of Funarte and consulting the periodicals of that time, we verified that there was an attention to consolidate the pre-existent musical production, contemplating aspects of the musicological and pedagogical order, as well as to project certain musical tendencies that began to be considered as an authentic and legitimate expression of national culture. After doing all the research mentioned above, we were able to conclude that, at that specific period, the interests of the state in relation to Funarte, were in direct correlation with the indirect benefits that Culture, Art, and Music in particular, could provide.

Keywords

• brazil
• the national institute for music
• funarte
• cultural policy
• the 1970’s