“Djair, tu és a nossa Carmen Miranda”: trajetória profissional de Djair Barreto Madruga através de seu acervo pessoal (1955-1993)

Abstract

Through a carnival joke, in the year 1972, a group of friends agreed to go out for the fun transvestites as baianas, the political assessor Djair Barreto Madruga paid a tribute to his great idol Carmen Miranda and dressed in clothes and props who remembered the singer. This year he won the title of prominence at the Samba school Ramiro Barcellos and created a new purpose: to carry the memory of Carmen through artistic performance. His figure had great visibility in the carnivals of Pelotas and region. Djair left a massive collection which invite attention to the albums he produced, especially with photographs and newspapper articles of presentations performed by Carmen's transvestite in samba schools, social clubs, television programs and radios. This master's dissertation, using as principal source the personal archive of Djair, aim to investigate his professional trajectory as a transvestite and its insertion in the cultural environment through its fanaticism by the singer Carmen Miranda. Thereat, was analyzed the importance of his personal and professional relations as political assessor, developed in the Municipality of Pelotas, and in the cultural environment of the city. So, it will be conceivable to see how his professional career as an artist and his realizations in the cultural scene and in the Pelotas carnival took place.