Banca de DEFESA: LEONARDO DE FONTES BARBOSA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LEONARDO DE FONTES BARBOSA
DATE: 20/12/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: on line via Google Meet
TITLE:
KEY WORDS:

Rozenblit Record Factory; Mocambo Record Label; Phonographic Industry; Pernambucanity; Northeastern Popular Music.

PAGES: 182
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This dissertation begins with the consideration of the existence of a "Pernambucan identity" (or the notion of "Pernambucanity") that carries elements within the dialectic between national/regional identities. These identities were once associated with perspectives on national and regional economic development that were present during the consolidation of the Brazilian national state between the 1930s and 1980s, given the position held by the Northeast (with Pernambuco as a strong cultural reference) in the context of economic development and the formation of a national identity that privileged cultural and economic factors located in the center-south. Across the decades, the idea of "Pernambucanity" remains present in the imagination and daily lives of Pernambuco workers today, widely used in various aspects of cultural production and reproduction, with music being one of its main expressions. This identity construction is contemporary but harks back to the diffusion of a regionalist perspective that dates back to past decades, originally structured and consolidated in the 1920s with the Regionalist Manifesto. Since then, a certain "Pernambucan regionalism" traverses the Brazilian national-development period between the 1950s and 1980s, a time when the Rozenblit Record Factory, particularly through the Mocambo label, became the primary organization in the phonographic production sector in the North/Northeast, with a strong focus on development and national and regional cultural production. By situating these aspects, we aim to analyze the contribution of Rozenblit, particularly through the Mocambo label, to the promotion of musical expressions that today encompass the regionalist perspective of "Pernambucanity" and its connections to broader socio-historical, cultural, and political-economic aspects. The methodological procedures involved bibliographic research of books, articles, theses, and dissertations on the concepts of national/regional identity, national development, etc., as well as documentary analysis of the Mocambo label's production catalog, especially the LP series 10,000 and 40,000, and documentary analysis of newspapers. As a result, we point out that the Rozenblit Factory, through the Mocambo label, made a qualitative contribution to the recording and cataloging of various artists, groups, and musical genres that reinforce the imagery that constitutes symbolic and material meanings of "Pernambucanity" today. These include frevo, maracatu, coco de roda, afoxés, xotes, quadrilhas, carnival marches, quadrilhas, and more. These musical expressions have over the decades solidified as the foundation for what is now conveyed as the Pernambucan identity, prominently featured in popular festivals like Carnival and São João, but also present beyond these cycles in the media and the daily lives of workers, communities, associations, and popular toys. As a national reference in the music industry, Rozenblit provided the technological support for many of these genres to be recorded and continuously played on radios and phonographs of workers, serving as a catalog for us to better research the musical references that crossed their historical, social, and economic context. Contrary to much of the literature dedicated to the subject, which often places the production of the Mocambo label - and often Rozenblit as a whole - as strictly regional, the documentary analysis revealed that the production of the Mocambo label aligns with the values of the national-popular of the 1960s, with a musical production filled with sambas, bossa nova, and boleros. This reveals a contribution, if we can put it that way, that sought to include classic Pernambucan and Northeastern rhythms within this national-popular perspective.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - 2227837 - CARLOS SANDRONI
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ ROBERTO ZAN
Presidente - 1962175 - LUCIANA FERREIRA MOURA MENDONCA