Two unfinished folkloric collections: the crossed paths of Amadeu Amaral and Mário de Andrade

ABSTRACT

Following details and marginal data in the available bibliography and archives, we focus on the interrelationship of two unfinished folkloric collections: “Cancioneiro caipira”, by Amadeu Amaral, and “Na pancada do ganzá”, by Mário de Andrade, conceived respectively in the 1920s and 1930s. As active writers based in São Paulo and interested in artistic creation and traditional popular cultures, their paths crossed in the environment in which modernism developed. The paper analyzes this interrelationship and sheds light on links of continuity in the modernist visions of popular traditions and Brazilian folklore.

KEYWORDS
Ethnography; folkloric collections; oral poetry and popular cultures; Amadeu Amaral; Mário de Andrade.