Instruction, civic celebrations and the practice of Orpheonic singing in times of Estado Novo in Piauí

Abstract

This work presents a study about the instruction, the civic celebrations and the practice of orpheonic singing during Estado Novo in Piauí. Its main objective is to analyze how educational institutions have used these resources in the search for the constitution of civic culture and the legitimation of the new regime. In order for this proposal to be contemplated, the text included the investments that Piauí education received during the period, the construction of School Groups by Piauí, the participation of students in civic events organized by schools, the implementation of the practice of singing in the Establishments and, finally, how the Piauían youth stood before the norms and impositions of the institutions, as well as the Estado Novo. In order to carry out this study, we used the newspaper Diário Oficial, government reports, interviews with alumni and photographs. The theoretical-methodological categories used in the discussions about Estado Novo were Gomes (2005), Schwartzman (1983) and Schwartzman; Bomeny; Costa (1984). For the reflections that guide the studies on cities, we focus on studies by Nascimento (2002), Lopes (2007) and Solon (2006). As for the constitution of patriotic memory, it was of fundamental importance to the works of Halbwachs (2003) and Pollak (1992).