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ABSTRACT
This paper has as central focus the representation of leisure practices transmited by printing
press in Belo Horizonte (1895-1922). Such practices were used in city in different ways:
prescribed and authorized; repressed and experimented as a form of resisting and subversion
to the present order; praised and supported by the printing press, reproved and denounced by
the same press. The documental research was the used methodology focusing the press.
Notes, articles, collumns and magazines written in newspapers received special treatment in
the first phase of the periodical activities in Belo Horizonte, independently if they have
greater or smaller cicrculation. The planning of the new capital of state was also considered
having in view the city was able to assume modern and civilized values, according to the
republican ideas. Through that analyses was possible to realize that the leisure was also
planned, since that change is not restricted to the architectonic aspects, bus also points to the
change of the social order. In this scene, the press present itself as a educating institution, with
several productions about leisure while transmitting negative and positive representations of
one or another practices. The enunciation ways presented in the reports show a high regard to
the practices according the new desirable sociability codes, as theater, the cinema, the club
parties, the regional band representations, the circus and the footing. Such practices received
an incentive and praised references from the press. The same fact did not happen in relation to
some practices that were apart from those codes. The inadequate appropriation of the city
equipment and permanence of old habits were reproved and considered as “caipiras” i.e. it is
not proper from modern city. The attendance to “botequins” (cheap taverns) and to gambling
sallons was considered as a deviation behavior and was always present in the newspaper in
the complaining or police collumns. These practices manifestation show a movement which
was marked by the tensions among people who live in the city. It was explicit in the press.
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