SAMBA OUTSIDER:

história pública, literatura e territorialidades em São Paulo, Brasil, 1950.

Abstract

This work seeks to use chronicles of Osvaldo Moles and testimonies of samba musicians as a basis for the study of the history of samba produced in the city of São Paulo in the 1950s and the socio-spatial segregation that marked urban cultural environments. Persecuted by the police, blacks had no right to produce their artistic or religious manifestations, nor to frequent most of the urban leisure facilities, such as streets, parks, movie theatres and their customs were confined to their cultural environments such as the Barra Funda train station and dances in the basements of the tenements. Musical instruments were expensive, leading blacks to produce their own instruments and ways of playing. To do this, I intend to work on an interface between theory and methodology from three different fields of study: historiography, literary theory, and musicology.