Um debate sobre manifestações culturais populares no Brasil: dos primeiros anos da República aos anos 1930

Abstract

A history of discrimination but also one of alliances and chieAy of the resistance of people is the purpose of this reflection. The period dealth with goes from the dawn of the Republic up to the 1930s, concentrating the attention in the ciry of Rio de Janeiro. During the rim Republic the cornmon attirude in respect to popular dernonstrations was of intolerance, that didn'r prevent rhe esrablishrnenr of contacts and alliances between tbe groups and intellecruals, in contrast with the hegemonic trend. Modernism started a new phase that culminated in rhe Vargas period. Such dernonstrarions were very mucb appreciated during this period, expressing also the interests of the groups in power and rhe popular ones alike. Hence, people by its persistance and the spread of its dernonstrations, ler alone with its entanglement in other groups' demonstrations, were of chief imporrance in brazilian culture as a whole.