O dedilhar folclórico de uma alma gentil: música, folclore e negritude na obra de Gentil Puget (1938-1948)

Abstract

This production sought to show, through the trajectory of an artist and intellectual from Pará, the national scene of studies of popular culture between the years 1938-1948. Through Gentil Puget and his approach to the themes of folklore, folk music and blackness, a period of national history concerned with the formation of national identity was analyzed. To this end, periodicals were selected that mention his activity in radio programs, his chronicles in newspapers and interviews. We seek to understand how this musician's production helped to build a discourse of national unity in the Vargas regime, on the one hand, while, on the other hand, he assumed an activism dedicated to folklore and the black cause that clashed with the hegemonic project of cultural policies at the time. We aim to analyze how Puget's intellectual construction was developed in his production and how his personal life interfered in his work. We also work with the connections that the folklorist established for his political-ideological positioning in defense of black demonstrations, both in Belém, with Bruno de Menezes and Dalcídio Jurandir, and in the Federal Capital, Rio de Janeiro, with Abdias Nascimento and Abigail Bastos.