The text analyzes and discusses Mário de Andrade's critical contribution to the relation between music, culture and literature, particularly poetry. Andrade's intellectual production is characterized by a constant search for an understanding of the meaning of art, culture and Brazil, through the creation of what might be called a polyphonic view. His studies and essays on music, together with his keen interest in anthropology and ethnography, left deep marks in his fiction, as a reading of a chapter from Macunaíma shows clearly.
music; literature; Mário de Andrade; Macunaíma; poetics