Father José Maurício Nunes Garcia and the “Brazil´s Inventors”: A Perspective about the Negro in the 1930s and the Nationalism in Art

Abstract

The perspective that began to be drawn in the 1930s, concerning the conceptual construction of the nation and country, built during the Vargas Era, fundamental for Brazil as Latin America industrial leader, was embased by revisionists, that became known as “Brazil Inventors”. They have designed a way of thinking the Nationalism, and wrote the Brazil´s History from a new survey, with studies concerning race, culture and society of the country.  This paper proposes to bring up social and anthropological aspects that shaped the biography and work of Father José Maurício Nunes Garcia. For structuring a glorious Past, it was elected some important figures of the Brazil´s History of Music. For that it was used as the Colonial Music Symbol the Father José Maurício. However, was it purposeful his historical whitening?