Benedicto Nicolau dos Santos

The objective of the article is to present aspects of the life trajectory and work of Benedicto Nicolau dos Santos, a black intellectual, musician and his participation in the construction of Paranist ideology. For Benedicto, the language of music and theater aimed at cultural formation and social refinement. Among the concepts used, the following stand out: that of trajectory, habitus and capital by Bourdieu (2001, 2009), that of sociability network by Sirinelli (2003), and that of intellectual by Vieira (2011), as well as the contributions of Otto (2015) that address Benedicto's musical production. The musical compositions presented belong to the collection of the Escola Paranaense de Música e Belas Artes (EMBAP). Son of a Portuguese man and an enslaved black woman, throughout his artistic and musical career, his racial origin was hidden most of the time. Its social and symbolic rise is based on racial cordiality and tacit racism (SALES JR., 2006). His social and symbolic rise was based on racial cordiality and the unspoken racist (SALES JR., 2006). His work in the artistic-musical field, combined with his network of sociability and vast musical production, including writings on theory, makes him an intellectual musician, as he propagates the Paranista ideal through his compositions such as “Hymno de Curityba” from 1928

Art · Humanities · Political science · Sociology and Education in Brazil