Califórnia da Canção Nativa

Telmo de Lima Freitas, pictured here wearing full traditional Brazilian Gaucho regalia, was the 1979 grand prize winner, taking home theCalhandra de Ouro with the song Esquilador (sheep shearer).

Califórnia da Canção Nativa (translated literally from Portuguese: California of Native Song) is a yearly regional music festival in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil.

The event first took place in 1971 and continues to be very successful to this day. The main focus of this festival is the celebration of the nativist Gaucho culture, values, world outlook, and history by way of music and song. The highest prize is the Calhandra de Ouro (Golden Lark). Competition finals are always hosted by the city of Uruguaiana.

Given its three decades-long successful history, the festival has become very popular and has received many accolades, including the prestigious official recognition, classifying it as one of the great statewide cultural institutions.[1]

Winning compositions

This list, up to and including the year of 1999, has been widely cited as to have appeared in an official festival publication called Livro de Poemas Oficial da XXX Califórnia da Canção Nativa.[2]

Presidents

Other state cultures

Although the Gaucho culture and its Portuguese-based language prevails in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, sharing many of its folklore characteristics with neighboring horseback livestock raising, grassland centered cultures, such as found in Uruguay and in Argentina, the state also has other strong albeit less prominent cultural focus areas.

These are, notably the German-Brazilian cultural identity and the Riograndenser Hunsrückisch language (the estimated number of speakers are around one million and a half), spoken in the state since 1824; it received official recognition by the state House of Representatives in 2012 by unanimous vote. Also, as the result of European immigration stated in the 19th century, the state has an Italian culture and language of its own, the Talian language (a Veneto-based language/dialect), spoken mostly in the highlands region, at the so-called Old Italian Colonies in the upper state (see Italian-Brazilian).

However, there are many other much smaller cultural minorities in the state (for example, the Afro-Brazilian community, the Guarani and Kaingang[3] indigenous peoples, also Pomeranian, Polish, German-Jewish, etc.), However, these three are the predominant cultural expressions found in the state, each with living linguistic expressions which attest to their existence.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Califórnia da Canção Nativa ganha status de patrimônio cultural do RS
  2. ↑ Poesia-RS-Blogspot.com - Califórnia da Canção Nativa: O que é a Califórnia? July 18, 2008. Site in Portuguese, with YouTube links to 18 Calhandra de Ouro or Golden Lark winning numbers.
  3. ↑ Terra Indígena Guarita: Bem Vindo á Terra Indígena Guarita - Tenente Portela, Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil

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