Sound Clash: conflicts between two discourses about musical nationalism in Brazil - Mário de Andrade and the group Música Viva (1920 - 1950)

Abstract

The current work aims to analyze two discussions regarding musical nationalism produced between 1920 and 1940. These discussions maintained dialogues with the concepts of art and earlier Brazilian nation, forged largely by Brazilian romanticism of the second half of the nineteenth century. Amid discussions of musical nationalism in Brazil were, in different contexts, firstly Mario de Andrade during the 1920s and later on with members of the group Música Viva around 1940, two specific concepts of national music that, although diverging in many aspects, resembled in many others and showed the tense dialogue locked between these two groups as well as the continuities and ruptures present in their talks.