In the interview A Musicológica Kamayurá, Professor Rafael José de Menezes Bastos tells us about his formative years and his first professional experiences. He comments on his main intellectual gurus and on the political context that marks his professional activity at FUNAI in the 1960s and also his Master's years at the University of Brasília. Also part of this interview are some of the main theoretical and methodological issues that mark the book A Musicológica Kamayurá (1978), such as the question of musical metalanguage and the importance of ritual in the constitution of musical systems, themes that will be taken up in later works by the author .
This interview is part of Volume 1, n.1 of GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound. Journal of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, published in June 2016: www.revistas.usp.br/gis
Screenplay, editing and conducting the interview: Tatyana de Alencar Jacques
Music: Indians Kamayurá
Photographs and recordings: Rafael José de Menezes Bastos
Production: Tatyana de Alencar Jacques and Ari Ghiggi Junior
Florianópolis, May 18, 2015.