Abstract

During the course of the 1960s, a generation of journalists based in Rio de Janeiro city was concerned with commenting and systematically analyzing different aspects of the making of urban popular music in Brazil. Deeply interested in the subject, which was part of their own life experiences; they went beyond the limits of journalistic chronicles and devoted themselves to individually making comprehensive inventories, organizing wonderful private collections and gathering bibliography on the subject. Ary Vasconcelos, a journalist and chronicler from Rio de Janeiro, was one of the main protagonists of this process. This article aims to critically examine aspects of his historiographical work process, as well as his interpretations and contributions to the invention and construction of a historiographical narrative

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