Onde está ela? Music and feminine (in)visibilities in the magazine A Estação (Rio de Janeiro, 1879-1904)

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Avelino Romero
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/40242
• topic: Music; Visibilities; Women's Press; Música; Visibilidades; Prensa Femenina; Música; Visibilidades; Imprensa Feminina

This investigation analyzes two polkas published in the magazine A Estação (Rio de Janeiro, 1879-1904) as musical supplements; one of them was attributed to a recognized composer, while the other remained anonymous, which opens up to speculations on its possible female authorship. Music is contextualized throughout the magazine itself as both an object and a theme over dialogues with articles, narratives and it visual language. Using the concept of imagéité as suggested by Jacques Ranciére, our goal is to approach the intersection between the visible, the legible, and the audible layers in 29 compositions issued in the said magazine. The topic of female visibilities is addressed as well, and how they can be understood through women figures on the covers of musical scores, along with the public portrayal of the female composers of seven scores. It is also brought into discussion the subsequent erasure of these women, an analysis based on feminist criticism towards traditional musicology, which overestimates a “serious” repertoire over ballroom dances.