The musa project and the first female songbook of Pará

Abstract

The "Cancioneiro Feminino do Pará" is the inaugural work for the creation of the entitled "MUSA-Mulheres na Música da Amazônia" (MUSA-Women in the Music Collection of the Amazon), an ongoing institutional research project linked to the School of Music of UFPA. The objective is to research women in the space of the musical arts of the Amazon of Pará, recovering their identities, practices, memories, experiences, knowledge, and artistic productions through the publishing, critical review, phonographic record, and dissemination of handwritten songs of female authorship in Pará until the middle of the twentieth century, never before edited. The methodological path adopted is divided into four stages: the first refers to documentary research, the second to bibliographic research, the third consists of the description and musical study of the collected material, and finally, the fourth stage consists of the discussion and dissemination of results. The preliminary results point to the understanding of these productions of female authorship from the practices of consumption of cultural goods, social relations, and institutional structures of the time.

DOI:https://doi.org/ 10.56238/devopinterscie-227