History and historians of popular music in Brazil

This article aims to critically examine the group of works by authors such as Vagalume, Alexandre Goncalves Pinto, Orestes Barbosa, Mariza Lira, Edigar de Alencar, Jota. Efege, Almirante and Lucio, the "first generation of historians of modern urban music." This generation-born at the turn of the 20th century-besides keeping record of memory and cultural events, gathered, organized, compiled, filed and, most of all, "created a tradition" in our popular culture/music that remains alive and is still diffused today. Actually, they were the only historians of popular music/culture, for those days neither professional historians nor intellectuals concerned with conserving and disseminating national culture thought popular urban music had any cultural or social relevance whatsoever.