Transit and meanings of the pandeiro in Rio de Janeiro (1900-1939)

ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to examine the transit of the pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine) in Rio de Janeiro, from 1900 to 1939, and the meanings attributed to the instrument. As specific goals, this article seeks: to map the environments through which the pandeiro circulated; to understand the symbolic roles occupied, in the national imaginary in constitution at that time, by the instrument and by musicians who played it; to examine how the building of the first professional pandeiro player’s artistic images took place. The methodology adopted is the research in periodicals of that period.

KEYWORDS:
Pandeiro; pandeiro players; history of Brazilian popular music