Música do Norte: intelectuais, artistas populares, tradição e modernidade na formação da “MPB” no Pará (anos 1960 e 1970)

A presente dissertação trata da atuação de intelectuais (poetas, jornalistas, militantes, estudantes, folcloristas, antropólogos) e artistas populares na formação da chamada “MPB”, Música Popular Brasileira, no Pará. Entre meados da década de 1960 e de 1970, setores intelectualizados da classe média paraense iniciaram uma grande mobilização no sentido de atualizarem a música popular produzida em Belém aos debates políticos e estéticos que a MPB realizava no restante do país. Festivais foram realizados, grupos de poesia e música surgiram, atuações políticas se misturavam com posturas boemias e grande atividade artística. A nova intelectualidade buscava ao mesmo tempo fazer uma música moderna, mas pautada em elementos da cultura popular paraense ou amazônida. Em meio a novos artistas advindos destes setores da sociedade uma revisão da memória da música popular se fazia e antigos nomes eram incorporados a uma tradição. Concomitantemente a isso, o carimbó, que até então estava restrito às cidades e comunidades interioranas, surge em Belém como uma explosão musical e torna-se música consumida pelas rádios, TVs e indústria do disco. A urbanização deste gênero do folclore regional leva a um amplo debate sobre autenticidade, mercado e identidade cultural da região amazônica e do Pará em particular. Neste processo, artistas de extratos populares entram em cena dando sua contribuição à música popular do Norte. O amplo debate nos jornais sobre o carimbó (sua autenticidade ou sua degeneração frente ao mercado) se soma as atuações da jovem intelectualidade. Neste complexo contexto de múltiplas atuações surge uma MPB de feições regionais.

A música e a cidade: práticas sociais e culturais na cena da canção popular em Belém do Pará na década de 1980

A dissertação aborda o desenvolvimento de práticas de sociabilidade e de uma rede de compromissos entre os atores sociais integrantes do mundo artístico (BECKER, 1982) ensejadas por meio da canção popular, bem como formas de produção e circulação dessa mercadoria cultural na cidade de Belém do Pará, entendendo-a como uma área de fronteira (HANNERZ, 1997) nos anos oitenta. Para isso, recorri à categoria cena musical (STRAW, 1991) como subsídio para análise dessas ocorrências socioculturais. Trata-se de um estudo antropológico com temática histórica (FREHSE, 2005; SAHLINS, 1999) pautado em pesquisas em registros escritos e na oralidade que está dividido em três capítulos. O primeiro, intitulado "Uma cidade em expansão e sua cultura musical em processo" apresenta uma caracterização das transformações no cenário urbano de Belém do Pará no início da década de 1980 e as fundações de uma cena de canção popular. Assim, são estudados dois eventos fundamentais para a conformação desse cenário musical, a Feira Pixinguinha em Belém do Pará e o Projeto Jayme Ovalle. O segundo capítulo é "A produção da canção identitária pelas práticas discursivas de artistas da música popular na Belém dos anos 80". Nele são objetos a relação do lugar com a feitura da canção e seus significados, a ideia de canção como objeto-valor, a formação da associação de músicos CLIMA e o estudo de algumas canções emblemáticas da cena oitentista. O terceiro capítulo, “Práticas de sociabilidade e os 'lugares da canção’ na Belém do Pará oitentista” estuda os espaços sociais da canção popular como os lugares onde se produzia e consumia a essa mercadoria cultural e por onde circulavam artistas e público dessa modalidade musical na cidade - como bares, teatros, casas de show - sob as características do ambiente urbano local. Também, apresenta-se uma visada sobre os festivais da canção e as gravações como mercadoria cultural e lugar de projeto (VELHO, 2008) para a categoria dos artistas do cenário da música abordado.

Intelectuais, literatura e imprensa no pós-golpe

Culture and the arts in Brazil were impacted directly by the military coup from 1964 onwards. In spite of repression and censorship, the activity of intellectuals and artists in the pre-1964 period was not interrupted nor became stagnant, but gained even greater force due to the presence of control and restrictions by the institutions of repression over against the freedom of creation and thought. As in many sectors of cultural production, literature played a vigorously combative role against the arbitrariness of the regime and implemented “projects of resistance” on the basis of key elements of representation. This occurred, for instance, through the writing and circulation of works such as Pessach: a travessia, by journalist Carlos Heitor Cony, and Quarup, by journalist Antonio Callado. The two novels enabled a broad debate on the narrative form and the scope of involvement in the literature of the 1960s, such as the confrontation between Paulo Francis and Ferreira Gullar in the pages of Revista Civilização Brasileira, which is the focus of this article.

Sistema de comunicação bluetooth voltada para automação residencial

Bluetooth technology found in smartphones and tablets can add an interesting feature focused on home automation. Through the implementation of a wireless network communication between a mobile device and receiver modules located in different points, or even on a single centralized point in residence, you can manage many household items with just a few taps on smartphones. With such applicability, allow the user greater integration with your home, comfort, safety and economy. In this context, this work presents a system design of low cost Bluetooth communication between a smartphone and a receiver module with microcontroller interface development control from the Android platform

Oswald de Andrade e Tarsila do Amaral: poesia e pintura modernistas

The objective of the present text is to establish connections between literature and painting through the comparison between Oswald de Andrade’s poem “Longo da Linha” and Tarsila do Amaral’s painting “Palmeiras”, both belonging to the Brazilian Modernist movement Pau-Brasil. To emphasize also the step taken by the two artists, in Modernism, against the previous academicism, C. S. Peirce’s semiotics theory will be used as analytic basis to demonstrate, in Tarsila’s painting, a path towards planarity and stylization to produce quality effects, closer to the shape and the adventure of senses than to symbolization, whilst for Oswald, this same path leads to the presence of visualization as composition factor.

Relações públicas e web 2.0: a manutenção do relacionamento entre artista e público pela internet

The objective of this study is a explanation about the action possibilities of the Public Relations professional as a manager of communication between the musical celebrity and his publics. For this purpose, a bibliographical research was made about Internet question like his history, the evolution of Web 2.0 and even about different kinds of virtualization, introducing with interactivity. Other researches was been made like social culture topics and even the studies of Public Relations actions in the artistic scene, acting like a manager of different publics relationships in the virtual contacts. A study case with the virtual communication tools employed in the career of Hugo e Tiago, one of the country artists in Brazil, is also in this studies. Otherwise, the study explains about the different ways of Public Relations actions, his upgrades along with the new communication tools and his new types of making relations with more and more different publics. Working with new strategies and keeping his objectives in the organization and public relationship, Public Relations brands a new vision to this type of communication professional, who becomes even more important in the actual organizations scenario

Processo e produção visual do graffitti na cidade de Bauru/SP - Brasil: um estudo etnográfico

The graffiti is a calligraphic inscription or a drawn painted or engraved over a supported not normally used for this purpose. This artistic manifestation has been gaining more notoriety as an element of expression, reflection and actuation in the urban environment, since it is present in the streets and public ways reaching many observers with different repertoires and looks. This recent movement in Brazil has its first records in the early 80’s, but it is noteworthy that this event continues in an emergence process, consolidating increasingly as an artistic movement, in broad development, elaborating new technics, readjust and re-signifying its elements, re-improving and generating different values for the spaces. With the purpose to map the graffiti artists in Bauru/SP – Brazil, it was done an ethnography that allows to point some specific local characteristics; the relation between the artist and the city, and; the relation between the townsman and the graffiti.

Fayga Ostrower: estudos sobre a pesquisa plástica e teórica nos processos criativos

The way we look express our soul, so there is no way to disregard the presence of intuitive processes in the creation of any work, like say Fayga Ostrower. Based on the theories of the artist, intends to investigate how their own texts read his plastic production, heavily influenced by German Expressionism. The concernment of the research is in the approach how their publications favor the understanding of artistic making as a moment against the intuitive and the fullness of the original creation and true to the thought of the artist.

O desafio de desenvolver artistas criativos no mundo das mídias digitais

From the second half of the twentieth century, with the proposal of working active listening, exploring sounds, the experience, the search for new forms of contemporary music notation, improvisation and experimental music composition, arise music educators Paynter Schafer and Koellreutter, known by the active method of second generation who contributed greatly to the development of creative processes in the classroom. Also arises, in the same period, the encounter between art and technology, expanding opportunities through digital media, open, participatory and interactive works such as Video art, Web art, Nanoarte and Locative Art, augmented, not only against the art with the public, through connections mediated by digital interfaces, providing new learning situations attractive for the development of creativity and artistic production as challenges in contemporary.

La fotografia, il film e il video nella Land art tra documentazione e sperimentazione

La tesi affronta il ruolo problematico della documentazione nella Land art, sia per quanto riguarda l’immagine diffusa dai magazine e dalle riviste d’arte, sia affrontando nello specifico il rapporto con i media nella poetica degli artisti, dedicando particolare attenzione a De Maria, Heizer, Oppenheim, Smithson, Holt, Dibbets, Long, Fulton e Christo e Jeanne-Claude.

Effectiveness of integrated psychological therapy (IPT) for schizophrenia patients: a research update

Standardized recovery criteria go beyond symptom remission and put special emphasis on personal and social functioning in residence, work, and leisure. Against this background, evidence-based integrated approaches combining cognitive remediation with social skills therapy show promise for improving functional recovery of schizophrenia patients. Over the past 30 years, research groups in 12 countries have evaluated integrated psychological therapy (IPT) in 36 independent studies. IPT is a group therapy program for schizophrenia patients. It combines neurocognitive and social cognitive interventions with social skills and problem-solving approaches. The aim of the present study was to update and integrate the growing amount of research data on the effectiveness of IPT. We quantitatively reviewed the results of these 36 studies, including 1601 schizophrenia patients, by means of a meta-analytic procedure. Patients undergoing IPT showed significantly greater improvement in all outcome variables (neurocognition, social cognition, psychosocial functioning, and negative symptoms) than those in the control groups (placebo-attention conditions and standard care). IPT patients maintained their mean positive effects during an average follow-up period of 8.1 months. They showed better effects on distal outcome measures when all 5 subprograms were integrated. This analysis summarizes the broad empirical evidence indicating that IPT is an effective rehabilitation approach for schizophrenia patients and is robust across a wide range of sample characteristics as well as treatment conditions. Moreover, the cognitive and social subprograms of IPT may work in a synergistic manner, thereby enhancing the transfer of therapy effects over time and improving functional recovery.

A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged ... : being a work necessary not only for classical instruction, but for all those who wish to have a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture and painting /

Plate engraved by P. Fourdrinier.

Willow Village

Willow Village, was a former war workers' housing unit acquired by UM in 1945. In 1946, the Department of Physical Education for Men inaugurated a temporary intramural program for students in residence there. University of Michigan News Service stamp on verso. Person in doorway.

State of Exile Studies

Guy Stern, the Florida International University/Betsy Scholar in Residence and Wayne State University Professor Emeritus, lectures on various points in the field of exile studies. Lecture held at the Green Library, Modesto Maidique Campus, Florida International University.

Responsabilidad social y debate artístico en el día de hoy. Los artistas enfrentados al conflicto armado en la antigua Yugoslavia (1989-2008)

This dissertation is concerned with a period unfortunate for the citizens of former Yugoslavia, but influential for its artists, who used their feeling of responsibility to leave valuable testimonies about their time. The research began in 2007 for the purposes of obtaining an advanced academic degree and was entitled Responsibility of the Artist Facing Social Conflicts: the Case of Yugoslavia (1989–2003). A part of it was presented in 2008, at the Women’s Worlds Congress held at Complutense University in Madrid (in cooperation with my mentor Dolores Fernández Martínez). This dissertation implied a broader scope of research on the topic of Social Responsibility and Artistic Debate Today. Artists in the Face of Armed Conflict in Former Yugoslavia (1989–2008), thus aiming to study the case of Serbian visual artists under Milosevic (1989–2000) and later, during the democratization of the Serbian society. The period in focus ends in 2008, except for the works in the group Monument where it stretches up to 2012.