Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo was a Brazilian musicologist/ethnomusicologist/folklorist who collaborated with U.S. scholars, producing field recordings of Brazilian folk music, as part of the Good Neighbor Policy—and an attempt to establish a cultural exchange between the Americas. During the 1940s, Azevedo also served as music specialist at UNESCO. In this lecture, Miranda Bartira Tagliari Sousa illuminated elements of the Azevedo collection, housed in the Music Division of the Library of Congress, emphasizing points of interest such as: 1) the establishment of a sound archive on Latin American music at the Library of Congress; 2) the collaborations between ethnomusicologists, folklorists and comparative musicologists from the U.S. and abroad in the creation of that archive; 3) the political, cultural and scholarly concepts and interests that led to this collaboration, and 4) the consolidation of the fields of folk studies and comparative musicology during the twentieth century in the U.S. and in Latin America. This lecture was made possible with the generous support of the American Musicological Society.

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