Abstract
In the 1930s, the German-Uruguayan musicologist Francisco Curt Lange (1903-1997) began an important correspondence with Mário de Andrade, the flow of letters between them intensifying from 1935 when the latter was named director of the Sâo Paulo Municipal Department of Culture and Recreation under the Fábio Prado administration. This correspondence revolved around a shared interest as civil servants: the creation of a School Radio channel and a Public Record Library, the direction of which Mário de Andrade entrusted to his disciple Oneyda Alvarenga. In this article, I analyse the views of Curt Lange and Mário de Andrade, in light of their cultural, political and technological contexts, on the role of the State in building a public service institution, especially their conceptions of public radio broadcasting as an educational vehicle and the leading place of the Public Record Library in this proposal.
Keywords
Rádio escola; Discoteca Pública; política cultural; institucionalidade cultural; história cultural