Canções de Amigo: redes de sociabilidade na correspondência de Liddy Chiaffarelli Mignone para Mário de Andrade

Abstract

The mail written by Liddy Chiaffarelli Mignone to Mário de Andrade from 1937 to 1945 is the subject as well as the privileged source of this thesis. During the analysis of the letters, the investigation was centered in sociability webs where the sender was set in the context and developed her own educational practices, evaluating how she borrowed some published and cultivated ideas from the ones who were socially close to her. Therefore, the use of this documentation can help us get to know some information about the cited musical educator s personal and professional life once the mail did offer us data that had not been published before. In order to analyzing the mail, I reported to the approaches and methodologies used by researchers linked up with the History of the Written Culture, aiming at studying elements of the letters without overcoming the limits and possibilities offered by the writer to the studies in the Education History. Doing so, I was able to perceive different approaches about varied themes, specifically on Musical Education History, and to understand some issues related to the friendship between Lilly and Mário and the ideas shared by their friends concerning them, Liddy and Mário, and also women´s professional participation in society. In this study, I focus on some aspects of the sociability webs presented in the mail between Liddy and Mário. Reflecting about the groups cited in the letters gave me tools not only to wonder about the social relations established by Liddy in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and during her travels abroad, but also to get information about her activities in the Musical Education field and to observe meanings from her epistolary writing that were essential for her personal and professional life. Problematizing this writing practice, an epistolary exchange, demonstrated how Liddy and Mário s friendship was consolidated and which image of herself Liddy projected on her writings. The epistolary exchange represented not only a written communicative channel, but a space of sharing of ideas, creation and strengthening of professional and affective bonds as well. In addition, it was possible to widen the knowledge about Ms. Mignone s professional practice and to analyse her activities as a singer, a singing and piano teacher, a translator and interpreter and a researcher. It is also important to emphasize that the epistolary exchange gave us a chance to get information about a period in Musical Education when the work of a single woman, the one presented in this study, have stood out among the ones of male artists who have been outstandingly cited in the historic records of that time