Entre americanismos: um lugar ao sul para a música estadunidense

Abstract

Between the 1930s and 1940s, Francisco Curt Lange coined the term Americanismo Musical to describe his practices of internationalizing music and musicology in the Latin American circuit. This movement, which he led from Montevideo, connected him with names in music from the Americas, making his professional network as a mosaic of relationships. Also during this period, we can observe his rapprochement with American music production and its government representatives. The name of Charles Seeger, American musicologist and civil diplomat, becomes an important ally in the realization of Curt Lange's Americanist practices. The meeting of the two musicologists is also the meeting of two ideological projects focused on building a musical identity. In the plots of this inter-American relationship, we can see that several musicological products favored Lange's Americanismo Musical and Seeger's Americanist project. Therefore, investigating this intersection leads us to a path of understanding the American musical universe and how German culture imposes itself in this relationship, as well as expanding our understanding of Curt Lange's Americanismo Musical.