No Tom da Canção Cearense: do Rádio e TV, dos Lares e dos Bares na era dos Festivais (1963-1979)

Abstract

This work aim is to tell about, through interviews and bibliographic sources, the history of a cultural and musical revolution that derived from Fortaleza, in the sixties. This movement involved the radio, theater, plastic arts and politics, specially in relacion to music and musician, his life experience and social condition. The confluence of cultural expressions and producing spaces, at the beginning of 60’s: Alberto Nepomuceno Conservatory, groups as Cactus and Gruta, Phisics and Arquitecture Institutes and the Law College. Some pubs as Balão Vermelho, Estoril and Anísio were of fundamental importance for congregating young artists and spread out their compositions. Famous festivals which happened in the second half of 60’s, particularly the IV Festival of Ceará’s Popular Music and other ones in those years attracted TV interest and put these composers in contact with great national names. So, the target of this study is to feed the comprehension of how these new artists moved, including composing by order and using important musical events as a spring-board for their careers. Fighting to get a place in the brazilian phonographic market, they became known, in the whole country as “Pessoal do Ceará”.