Yielding the "Caboclo Music": the polyphonic creation of Carimbó through the accounts of writers, newsmen and folklorists in the Pará State (1900-1960)

This text approaches the historic path of artists' and thinkers' discussions around the emergence of carimbó as a typical instance of caboclo music within the Amazon and the state of Pará. The exchange of ideas between folklorists, newsmen and writers, between 1900 and 1960, are presented here as an endorsement to the connection of senses related to the idea of carimbó as a typical expression of regional folklore.

Carimbó; Caboclo Music; Folklore; Representation; Polyphony