This production sought to show, through the trajectory of an artist and intellectual from Pará,
the national scene of studies of popular culture between the years 1938-1948. Through Gentil
Puget and his approach to the themes of folklore, folk music and blackness, a period of
national history concerned with the formation of national identity was analyzed. To this end,
periodicals were selected that mention his activity in radio programs, his chronicles in
newspapers and interviews. We seek to understand how this musician's production helped to
build a discourse of national unity in the Vargas regime, on the one hand, while, on the other
hand, he assumed an activism dedicated to folklore and the black cause that clashed with the
hegemonic project of cultural policies at the time. We aim to analyze how Puget's intellectual
construction was developed in his production and how his personal life interfered in his work.
We also work with the connections that the folklorist established for his political-ideological
positioning in defense of black demonstrations, both in Belém, with Bruno de Menezes and
Dalcídio Jurandir, and in the Federal Capital, Rio de Janeiro, with Abdias Nascimento and
Abigail Bastos.
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