Brazilian culture continued

What I find most intriguing about Reily’s essay on Brazilian culture is how one person can have such a great influence on society. It is interesting how Andrade functioned first on as a notable author, secondly as someone who took it upon himself to actively evaluate the variety and historical lineage of Brazilian musical styles. He conducted research on the psyches of composers/musicians in Brazilian and the audience within a cultural context. He constructed meta-narrative on the role of the artist and the intellectual in society. As stated, Reily presents Andrade as shaped and formed by both the intellectual role he played and those around him, those he was concerned with. This is all in the context of Andrade’s strong feeling, a moral obligation to better the Brazilian, and bolter support for, basically, a reevaluation/redefinition of Brazil itself. This is perhaps the most striking part of the story. Reily points out: “Already in the Ensaio Mario was calling on composers to ‘see beyond [their] desires for celebrity,’ and assume ‘a social function’ in the country, by writing choral music, because ‘choral singing unifies individuals;…[it] generalizes sentiments’ (1962: 65).” (p 89) Reily continues to display the progression of Andrade as activist.