Oneyda Alvarenga: um pouco

Abstract

The present work intends to recount the history of Oneyda Alvarenga (1911-1984), from the epistolary relationship established with her teacher, Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), published in the book, Mário de Andrade-Oneyda Alvarenga: cartas (1983), approaching the student-teacher relationship, rereading the letters in order to outline Oneyda`s trajectory, and emphasizing how her history was influenced by this epistolary relationship history. Its justification is due to the fact that it contributes to the few studies found, so far, on this theme, recognizing Oneyda Alvarenga as a Brazilian writer and researcher, as well as the first director of the first Library Record created in the country, giving visibility to the Woman she was. The research is supported by authors such as Marilda Ionta, with her work As cores da amizade na escrita epistolar de Anita Malfatti, Oneyda Alvarenga, Henriqueta Lisboa e Mário de Andrade, Valquíria Maroti Carozze with A Menina Boba e a Discoteca, Fernanda Nunes Moya, in A Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo: um projeto modernista para a música nacional, Telê Ancona Lopez (2021), Leituras, percursos, Flávia Camargo Toni, Missão: as pesquisas folclóricas, Antonio Candido in <O Direito à Literatura=, and among others authors that, in turn, approach, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, Oneyda`s trajectory. As a result, this research pointed out the process by which Oneyda established herself, at a very young age, as a writer and poet, through the writing of the books A Linguagem Musical and A Menina Boba, respectively. Also, in folkloric studies, she has become as a researcher for her numerous works on this theme, such as her work Cateretês do Sul de Minas. Many of her researches, done through the Record Library, left significant contributions in the field of music and folklore, always involved in a larger Project, that of making national culture a privilege for all Brazilians. From the dissemination of these studies, the record concerts, conferences, lectures, and publications in magazines by Oneyda Alvarenga, it was possible to notice a significant increase in the interest and participation of the Brazilian population towards Brazilian culture. Oneyda, as the pivot of a work that, with the help of the Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas, she conducted with great mastery, left a large collection of records with registrations of different popular manifestations to posterity. These records and everything that was done with them afterwards, by the illustrious director of the Record Library, fulfilled the initial purpose that came from the creation of this institution, that of saving Brazilian culture from forgetfulness. In this way, Oneyda Alvarenga is recognized inside and outside of Brazil as Woman ahead of her time, a promoter of exchanges, who establishes herself, in her active work at the Record Library, as a great writer, director, and researcher who has been marking her history, and, consequently, the history of her country.