Bastos, Rafael José de Menezes (b Salvador, Bahia, 26 Dec 1945

Bastos, Rafael José de Menezes
(b Salvador, Bahia, 26 Dec 1945). Brazilian ethnomusicologist. He took the BA in
music (1968) and the MA in social anthropology (1976) at the University of Brasília,
and completed the doctorate in human sciences (social anthropology) at the University
of São Paulo (1990). His research work for his graduate studies was carried out in the
High Xingu Indian reservation and dealt with the musical culture of the Kamayurá
Indians. His doctoral dissertation, A festa da Jaguatirica: uma partitura críticointerpretativa, deals with the complex relationship of Kamayurá music and ritual. He
has been an adjunct professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Santa
Catarina, teaching and researching the ethnology and ethnomusicology of South
American lowland Indian cultures. He is a researcher for the Federal National Council
for Research, coordinating various projects on music, culture and society, and a
member of the Committee on Indigenous Affairs of the Brazilian Anthropological
Association. From 1992 to 1994 he was a post-doctoral visiting scholar in anthropology
at MIT, working on the project Musical Cognition and Structure: the Case of the Yawari
of the Kamayurá Indians of Central Brazil, and he also worked at the Smithsonian
Institution in 1994 as a research fellow. He has served in various professional national
and international organizations, such as the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia, the
Centro de Aperfeiçoamento do Pessoal de Nível Superior and the ICTM. Bastos has
published extensively in the area of Brazilian Indian ethnomusicology and on Brazilian
popular music. His scholarly approach is holistic and integrative.
WRITINGS
‘Las músicas tradicionales de Brasil’, RMC, no.125 (1974), 21-77
‘Situación del músico en la sociedad’, América Latina en su música, ed. I. Aretz
(Mexico City, 1977), 103-38
A musicológica Kamayurá: para uma antropologia da comunicação no Alto-Xingu
(Brasília, 1978)
‘Manipulação étnica e música entre os Indios Kiriri de Mirandela, Estado da Bahia,
Brasil’, Portugal e o mundo: Lisbon 1986, 495-506
‘Esboço de uma teoria da música: para além de uma antropologia sem música e de
uma musicologia sem homem’, Anuário antropológico, no.93 (1995), 9-73
‘Indagação sobre os Kamayurá, o Alto-Xingu e outros nomes e coisas: uma etnologia
da sociedade Xinguara’, Anuário antropológico, no.
Bastos, Rafael José de Menezes. 94 (1995), 227-69
‘A origem do samba como invenção do Brasil: sobre o feitio do oração de Vadico e Noel
Rosa (por que as canções têm música?)’, Cadernos de estudo de análise musical,
nos.8-9 (1995-6), 1-29
‘Musicalidade e ambientalismo na redescoberta do Eldorado e do Caraíba: uma
antropologia do encontro Raoni-Sting’, Revista de antropologia, xxxix/1 (1996), 14589
‘Música nas Terras Baixas da América do Sul: ensaio a partir da escuta de um disco de
Mésica Xikrín’, Anuário antropológico, no.95 (1996), 251-63
‘Ritual music of the Kayapó-Xikrin, Brazil’, Yearbook for Traditional Music, xxviii
(1996), 231-2
‘O estrangeiro: em torno da «Farra do Boi»’, Plural, no.9 (1997), 86-9
‘Music in Lowland South America: a Review Essay’, World of Music, xxxix (1997), 14351
GERARD BÉHAGUE