Mário de Andrade
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Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil. (Should not be confused with Angolan nationalist and anti-colonialist Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade.)
Books
Introdução à estética musical
"Compilation of Andrade's writings on musical esthetics. Part of a series of publications edited by Flávia Camargo Toni aimed at making Andrade's collection available for study (for other works edited by Toni, see HLAS 52:5119 and HLAS 54:5167). This book undoubtedly adds to our understanding of Andrade's ideas, revealing his reliance on works by German musicologists such as Hugo Riemann and E. Hanslick"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Na noite grávida de punhais
A poesia africana de escrita portuguesa e crioula, sob o condicionamento da dominação colonialista, articula-se intimamente ao movimento de libertação nacional. Ela ritma o longo combate: negar a negação e realizar a emergência histórica dos povos. Utilizando o privilégio de serem investidos do verbo, os poetas da noite grávida de punhais exprimiram, até às suas derradeiras consequências, os sentimentos informulados que agitavam as massas, dominaram os elementos culturais de afirmação nacional através do grito, do canto e do apelo. Autor de vários ensaios de carácter político e literário, Mário de Andrade, actualizando as suas obras anteriores, apresenta-nos o primeiro tomo de uma antologia de poesia africana que privilegia os temas, mas considera também as particularidades geográficas e a ordem cronológica.