KEY WORDS: Culture, Brazil, Industrialization, Modernity, Traditions.
Title of the Book: The Modern Brazilian
Tradition.
Author: ORTIZ, Renato.
The cultural
modernity and the
tradition are mixed in a peculiar and dynamic way. That mixture between the traditional and the modern leads the tradicionalização of the same. The Modernity with regard to the values of the cultural tradition becomes a taboo for some, then the reflection, that the culture is in transformation process in the modern society and it has been leading to the opposites to her, to do erroneous statements as: " Brazil didn''t enter in the modernity " or still; " Brazil doesn''t have tradition ". For the decade of 70, when the work was produced, such statements would have some sense. Brazil was a country classified by the rich countries as underdeveloped. Stuffed of debts, sore spots of the failed societies, undernourished people, lacks of access the education, higher education for some, a small elite dominating the job market and making your own idea of cultural, the pedestal of your supposition traditionalism. For Ortiz " THE classic past we didn''t possess. In Brazil as we saw, a historical correspondence existed between the development of a culture of incipient market and the autonomização of a sphere of universal culture. Two events symbolize that simultaneity well: the foundation of the Brazilian Theater of Comedy and the coming of television ".
For the time in supposed development it was difficult " to think the cultural process in a society '' that changed, but that still cultivates the memory of a modernization as project of construction nacional'' " was totally utopian. To understand the culture of the Brazilian Society due to this modernity is the objective of this work. To visualize the dimension of the structural changes better: " She avoids, still, a mission exclusively of the situation (for instance, of the political and economical analyses that frequently found in the newspapers that he/she sees the Brazilian society as that constantly in crisis, forgetting that the process of implantation of the capitalism in the periphery possesses a concretude and a history. " Whose problem badly solved by the society it was the rupture capacity with the new, associating him/it the modernity notion, nor full, nor frustrated. Roger Bastile compares like this: " the sacred savage " and the " sacred domesticated ". The savage for manifestation is explosive, difficult of being contained, domesticated to you/he/she controls of the order, anything of rationalistic utopia. We were " able to, then, to affirm that the approach of a '' capitalism domesticado'' institutionalizes, it places limits to illusions of a '' selvagem'' that contained the effervescence of an entire society in search of your destiny " in him passed. It is necessary to know that with the modernity opens up the choice freedom between civilization and barbarism. " This, of course, if other projects appear, now critical and opposed to the new " tradition " in that lived ". How to understand such change, which the positions divergentes on our " National " Identity and the influence of the Emergent Cultural Industry in Brazil ". Culture and politics in Brazil interrelate around the classic speech of what it is popular, foreigner and national in Brazil. For My Ortiz " thesis it is that the coming of a popular culture of mass implicates the redefinição of those concepts, and in the own parameters of the cultural " discussion. Some have been presenting with inadequacy the element of cultural dependence that saw suffering in elapsing of that years and mainly at that time of production of the work. Your objective is the discrimination of the outlying societies, the supposed modernization of Brazil, fed actually to hide the Cultural colonialism that we suffered until today in Brazil. Along that history we had the period of the precariedade and we are still in the phase ofnipulated today by the neoimperalismo. For Ortiz " What calls me attention, when it focalizes the period of incipiência of the modern Brazilian society, it is to strong foreign presence. Reality that elapses in a first moment of the fragility of the existent institutions, turning necessary the import of pictures and of knowledge generated out of the country ". It lacks independence, autonomismo, capable to generate a reflection more returned to the roots and modern tradition and international-popular in this nation.
Bibliographical references:
ORTIZ, Renato - THE Modern Brazilian Tradition - 1st Edition, SP, Publisher Brasiliense, 1988.