Em busca de uma cidade perdida

This paper tries to recreate, through fragments of the memory of the locals, a city that no longer exists. An imaginary travel is performed, where streets, places and persons are characters. The so-called fragments were extracted from a research in progress, which has used the Oral History methodology as a tool. They allow us to make the construction of a narrative based on the representation that each individual has made of the city. They also allow us to draw the sketch of a map in which streets, squares, movie theaters, bars and prostitution zones appear. After all, one sees the birth of an invisible city. The focus is directed at downtown, where people used to go to movies, clubs and theater, and to walk in the squares or just show up the new fashions. The locals made their prays, but also listened to the Army and Police Music Bands, that performed jazz, blues, tango, and a few native songs. Downtown was the place where new technologies could be first seen, as the spoken cinema, the automobiles, the motorcycles and the bicycles. Thus it was the place where the symbols of modernity were first perceived

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  Open Access•Nayara Gonçalves de Sousa•Faces de Clio•2021

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