Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo collection
By: collected by the Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil
Contributors: Spivacke, Harold, 1904-1977, correspondent; São Paulo (Brazil). Discoteca Pública Municipal
Published: 1938
Language: por
Number of pages: 1445
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Carnival; Field recordings; Rites and ceremonies; Musical instruments; Costume; Folk music; Folk songs; Folk dancing
Description: An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, moving images, photographs, and accompanying materials that document music, dance, and ritual in the northeastern Brazilian states of Maranhão, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and São Paulo. Includes correspondence between Harold Spivacke, then chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress and Oneyda Alvarenga, Director of the Discoteca (1941-1943). Photographs document field research and include images of musical instruments and costumes in the museum.
Notes: Dance documented in the collection includes dance dramas, ritual ceremonies, solo dances, group dances, and dances performed at Carnaval, reflecting native Indian, European, and Afro-Brazilian influences in the region before World War II.

Dance genres include Babussué, Brinquedo da Barca, Bumba-meu-boi, Caboclinhos, Catimbó, Côco, Reis de Congo, Tambô, and Toré.

Fieldwork conducted in northeastern Brazil between 1937 and 1938.

Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo Collection (AFC 1943/001), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga; Centro Cultura, São Paulo, Rua Vergueiro, 1000, São Paulo, SP 01504000, Brazil

Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

Exchange project with the Discoteca Publica Municipal, São Paulo, Brazil; 1943, 1950.

in Portuguese and English.

in Portuguese, native Brazilian languages, and Afro-Brazilian languages.

Finding aid available in the Folklife Reading Room, American Folklife Center and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.

Inventory in Portuguese of audio recordings and photographs (Folders 4-5).

Bibliographic information for titles in this collection is found in the online resource link:  Search for audio titles in the Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo Collection.

Alvarenga, Oneyda, ed. Catálago Ilustrado do Museu Folclórico, Vol 2. São Paulo, Brazil: Discoteca Pública Municipal, 1950.