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Evanira Mendes by Eric A. Galm
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9781496855923
Published:
15 Apr 2025
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Paperback
Number of pages:
277 pages
Dimensions:
235x156mm
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0.000kgs
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This compilation of Evanira Mendes's biography and translated publications offers for the first time in English an opportunity to revisit the music and culture of 1950s Brazil. Examining the trajectory of the Brazilian Folklore Movement, this book provides a new perspective on contemporary accounts that have overlooked the participation of women scholars from that era and seeks to grant Mendes the recognition she so richly deserves.Growing up on a farm in rural São Paulo State, Evanira Mendes (1929-2022) exhibited an early love of folklore, cultivated through the stories, songs, and gossip of wandering travelers in exchange for food and shelter. As she got older, she entered the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo to study piano, but her love of folklore persisted, and she was invited to work in the school's folklore archive and later as a folklore researcher for the São Paulo Folklore Commission from 1949 to 1959. There, she
This compilation of Evanira Mendes's biography and translated publications offers for the first time in English an opportunity to revisit the music and culture of 1950s Brazil. Examining the trajectory of the Brazilian Folklore Movement, this book provides a new perspective on contemporary accounts that have overlooked the participation of women scholars from that era and seeks to grant Mendes the recognition she so richly deserves.
Growing up on a farm in rural São Paulo State, Evanira Mendes (1929-2022) exhibited an early love of folklore, cultivated through the stories, songs, and gossip of wandering travelers in exchange for food and shelter. As she got older, she entered the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo to study piano, but her love of folklore persisted, and she was invited to work in the school's folklore archive and later as a folklore researcher for the São Paulo Folklore Commission from 1949 to 1959. There, she won awards including the national Sìlvio Romero folklore medal; won second place in a national folklore monograph competition; helped to organize the folklore pavilion at the IV Centenary of the Founding of São Paulo celebration; and worked closely with important names of the era. Despite these accomplishments, she has essentially been forgotten.
This book follows Evanira Mendes's experiences working as a field researcher as part of the São Paulo Folklore Commission, her participation and organization at national and international folklore conferences, her participatory research in Afro-Brazilian community dances and observation and critique of Brazilian modern artistic expression in the theaters of São Paulo, and her work as editor of the folklore page and later weekly columnist in the Correio Paulistano newspaper. Her first-person accounts of fieldwork and participation in folklore courses are supplemented by separate published accounts from various sources, helping to compile a comprehensive portrait of music and culture in São Paulo and Brazil from that era.
Growing up on a farm in rural São Paulo State, Evanira Mendes (1929-2022) exhibited an early love of folklore, cultivated through the stories, songs, and gossip of wandering travelers in exchange for food and shelter. As she got older, she entered the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo to study piano, but her love of folklore persisted, and she was invited to work in the school's folklore archive and later as a folklore researcher for the São Paulo Folklore Commission from 1949 to 1959. There, she won awards including the national Sìlvio Romero folklore medal; won second place in a national folklore monograph competition; helped to organize the folklore pavilion at the IV Centenary of the Founding of São Paulo celebration; and worked closely with important names of the era. Despite these accomplishments, she has essentially been forgotten.
This book follows Evanira Mendes's experiences working as a field researcher as part of the São Paulo Folklore Commission, her participation and organization at national and international folklore conferences, her participatory research in Afro-Brazilian community dances and observation and critique of Brazilian modern artistic expression in the theaters of São Paulo, and her work as editor of the folklore page and later weekly columnist in the Correio Paulistano newspaper. Her first-person accounts of fieldwork and participation in folklore courses are supplemented by separate published accounts from various sources, helping to compile a comprehensive portrait of music and culture in São Paulo and Brazil from that era.
About the Author: Eric A. Galm is professor and chair of the Department of Music and codirector of the Center for Caribbean Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is author of The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music, published by University Press of Mississippi, and his work has appeared in edited collections such as Performing Brazil: Essays on Brazil, Identity, and the Performing Arts; Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music; and Encyclopedia of Percussion. He was recognized as an Honorary Citizen of Itabira, Minas Gerais, for his research and service to regional musical traditions, which was supported by a Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation research grant.
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