Article
Portuguese
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oai:doaj.org/article:ef98ca13c14947f588e34805401d225c>
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DOI: <
10.14393/OUV24-v15n1a2019-8>
Abstract
This is a historical and critical landscape of censorship of the performing arts interpreted as a political practice institutionalised by the Brazilian state renowned during the years of military dictatorship (1964 – 1985). The established record lists the pre- and post-coup events in 64 until the political opening, the enactment of the 1988 Constitution with the supposedly ending censorship, reaching out to shows and exhibitions on national territory after 2016. The arguments put forward by the possible authoritarian testimony of the past and of the present politician and society in Brazil, conceding censorship of the arts as a practice promoted, among others, by conservative sectors of civil society. Finally, it comes to a possible reading of censorship as a historical crackdown by explaining the authoritarian elements around the arts in Brazil until the current days.