The Azevedo Collection: Musical and Cultural Exchange Between Brazil and the U.S.

About

Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo was a Brazilian musicologist/ethnomusicologist/folklorist who collaborated with U.S. scholars, producing field recordings of Brazilian folk music as part of the Good Neighbor Policy — and an attempt to establish a cultural exchange between the Americas. During the 1940s, Azevedo also served as music specialist at UNESCO. In this lecture, Miranda Bartira Tagliari Sousa illuminated elements of the Azevedo collection, housed at the Library of Congress, emphasizing points of interest such as: 1) the establishment of a sound archive on Latin American music at the Library of Congress; 2) the collaborations between ethnomusicologists, folklorists and comparative musicologists from the U.S. and abroad in the creation of that archive; 3) the political, cultural and scholarly concepts and interests that led to this collaboration, and 4) the consolidation of the fields of folk studies and comparative musicology during the 20th century in the U.S. and in Latin America. This lecture was made possible with the generous support of the American Musicological Society.

Archive

Library of Congress, in Library of Congress: talks and concerts

Licence or status

Rights statement at the Library of Congress, as the Library of Congress states it.

Credit

Library of Congress

Country

United States

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