Professor do Departamento de Sociologia da UFRJ e autor de "Passagens para a Teoria Sociológica: Florestan Fernandes e Gino Germani" (Clacso/Hucitec) [RESUMO] No centenário de nascimento do sociólogo, ...

Florestan Fernandes completaria, em 2020, 100 anos. Faleceu, precocemente em 1995, por um erro médico. Portanto, a vida - sua trajetória acadêmica e política - e sua obra são, agora, rememorados e, ...

Até meados dos anos 1950 prevalecia no Brasil a ideia da democracia racial, preconizada no clássico Casa Grande & Senzala, de Gilberto Freyre, publicado em 1933. A noção de que o preconceito contra os ...

SÃO PAULO – Em 4 de junho de 1987, o economista Celso Furtado (1920-2004), à época ministro da Cultura, anotou em seu diário que o sociólogo e deputado constituinte Florestan Fernandes (1920-1995) ...

When the credit crunch bit into the Florestan Trio's plans for our summer festival, we were forced to think creatively. In past years, we've always programmed a gala concert in Rye church, in which ...

This concert represented not just the penultimate instalment of the Florestan's traversal of Beethoven's piano trios, but the penultimate appearance of the ensemble itself. After 16 years at the top ...

Contemporary musicians can sometimes seem like management consultants—extremely well trained, unsentimental, a little technocratic, reliable in method, and efficient in execution. These musicians, ...

IN every person’s memory there are niches fixed, and in those niches are sacred persons. These are such as never obtruded themselves upon you, staining the pane through which their light shone with ...

In 2004 Susan Tomes published a memoir entitled ‘Beyond the Notes’. In it she chronicled the rise and fall of a touring piano quartet called Domus, of which she was the pianist. Domus had been notably ...