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BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS: - Elisabeth Blin

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The dance of Sao Goncalo (Saint Gonzalo) was another congada paying homage to<br />

a Dominican friar who lived in Portugal in the thirteenth century, and who became<br />

known for playing the guitar and dancing with prostitutes in order to catechize them.<br />

Figure 3. Statue of Sao Goncalo (Saint Gonzales), from the collection of the Mario de Andrade, Sao Paulo,<br />

Brazil. (de Andrade, Pequena Historia da Musica, 186)<br />

The story is “a typical myth of incorporation, which could be used both by the colonizers<br />

and by the colonized. 47 ” Numerous writings from early travelers describe these unusual<br />

celebrations:<br />

47 Jose Jorge de Carvalho, “Afro-Brazilian Music and Rituals, From Traditional Genres to the<br />

Beginnings of Samba” Serie Antropologia 256, Universidade de Brasilia, 1999, 39<br />

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