Da ditadura à democracia : o Festival de Arte de São Cristóvão (FASC) e a política cultural sergipana (1972-1995)

Abstract

This research investigated the Festival de Arte de São Cristóvão (FASC), sponsored by the Federal University Sergipe (UFS), between 1972 and 1995, which became the most important project of cultural extension of the University of that period, with estimated annual achievement and MEC FUNARTE and financial resources. From then examined the relationships of the Brazilian state with the promotion of culture, especially during the period of the military regime (1964-1985). We sought to further the study of the organization, implementation and impact of the Festival, identify the role of the military government in the field of culture, the uses to which it is made and the interests that drove such cultural policies; well, pay attention to the promotion of censorship, restraining cultural events considered |deviant|. Consideration was also analyzing ambiguities and sometimes contradictions in the relationship between such governments and the University in the context of surveillance, repression, but also financial investments and probable mutual favors. Was examined, finally, the different uses of the FASC, its various social implications and how it reflected on the changes in cultural policies processed in the context of democratization in post-1985. The notions of representation and appropriation, made in the area of cultural history, constitute the main theoretical contribution in building the research problem. The main sources used were based on the broad document collection on the FASC present in the Central Archive of the UFS, where it was possible to find large number of documents resulting from each issue as well as many newspaper clippings related to its effect. Moreover, also oral sources, from interviews with members of the organizing committees FASC were produced.