Documents from Gilberto Gil's Private Archive

punishments. However, as the satin, the city allowed itself to slide astutely between the time fingers, showing its pleats, but, also, its capacity of preserving itself soft and smooth as the original material of which it was made. "For the contemporaneous tourism, there, the place where one goes, must be a destination. Not a fatality!" It is common to say that the "Carnaval" reflects our real social contradictions. Nowadays, the "Trio Elétrico » became an enterprise. The ropes of the « Bloco » (blocs) segregate. The box seats discriminate. What will be the future of the hugest street event of the planet? The question is placed since the beginningh: "Carnaval" reflects our real social contradictions. The "Carnaval" does not completely suppress the real, even though that may be the intention of this or of any other big event celebrated in honor of the collective ecstasies and exultation. The spirit of the great collective event is to transcend the level of human limitations and approach us of the largest gayety. Even partially, in the "Carnaval" of Bahia, or Recife, of Rio and that of the many Brazilian cities, what can be seen is people, many people, that are opened for the accomplishment of this spirit of integrity of the gaiety, although the social body carries prints of its imperfection. We should always work for a more and more participative "Carnaval". Yet, I get enthusiastic over the fact that it is already shared by people absolutely different in what concerns communion level. A short time ago, the most progressive reading of the bahian plurality, went from the mixture, by the harmonization of chronic, religious and urban contrasts. Today, what we see is a sort of a strange tendency, somewhat separatist "black or white". Are we 100% blacks? Or, are we 100% crossbreed? I never forget that, at Bahia, the candomblé was forbidden by law, until the Roberto Santos Government, at the end of the 70's. It was not as nowadays when one feels the hostility of other religious groups competing for space. It was the interdicition guaranteed by the State. Today, things, although more complex, turn out from a more democratic way, where the confrontation of ideas and positions on the interracially and the public discussion on this questions its made on a more responsible way. I think that we are marching towards a society more end more cultural and racial crossbreed. The 50's and the 60's were the years of the bahian historic and cultural renaissance. The UFBA (Federal University of Bahia) of Prof. Edgar Santos (CEAO-Center of Afro-Oriental Studies, Music School, Theater, School of Arts), the petrol and Petrobrás, the Mapa generation, the New Cinema, the Tropicalia, the Vila Velha Theater... What is missing for a new bahian renaissance? We need to complete moving towards a contemporaneous life at the complex level of our time. And, also, we are missing the conclusion of the modernization work, now that starting to face the challenges that some people call modernity and others post-modernity. What we demand here is the humanistic renaissance when the natural life faces us to the first pos human manifestations. It may seem extravagant but the deal is just to look around and see what the capital, the industrialism, the cientificism, the monoculture of progress and the technical religions produce and we shall feel that the future renaissance will be a convergence of the inedited mutations for which it is necessary to prepare ourselves by means of adaptation and of critics and resistance. A polemic theme is the use of tourism in disadvantage of the culture of a given population. In the process of attracting tourism, how can we avoid the vulgarization of the culture? The conscience that tourism depends of culture is scattered all over, more and more. Tourists go to places to live the life as it reflexes on what different and characteristic everybody of the place were able to produce; something that determines another attractive and curious identity. The idea of a patterned international ambient that has prevailed for the tourism policies at a certain, already overcome, moment. Today, what attracts is the difference. For the contemporary tourism, there, the place where we go, must be a destination, not a fatality! And, Bahia is intensively different. It is important to appreciate our differences. "Presently the raw materials are different and the most popular, crossbreed, different they are, more raw material they will be, in the approaching productive paradigm." The bahian culture is different due to its plurality. What does Bahia have? Bahia is, beyond all, generous, a joyful people, receptive, that cultures affection and friendship, a story weaved with threads of different colors; an extraordinary capacity of being at the same time, herself and many others. The tourism policies will have success, if it is what we desire. Why the fine biscuit continues inaccessible to the masses of people, as Oswald de Andrade denounced decades ago? How should we fight the cultural litter that invades the mass communication tying the audience and monitoring the public opinion? All of this is tied to the industrial model of Communications of the global world with its productive rationality and extreme consume. It is a world question and the capacity of ruling that the countries and their societies must have and may have to have, with relation to their radio diffusion systems, will depend on the correlation of forces in the general political plan. I would, also, say that the social conscience around the question will inform and orient the debate. In this debate, the present administration has tried to be mindful to all of this and has not drawn back from its stimulating role. More than half of the present CDs and DVDs market in Brazil is made of falsified products. Do you agree that the final prices for a CD, a DVD, are very expensive? How can we combat this piracy? The piracy is a complex phenomena, initially because of the simple definition of what is piracy what it may have been and it is not any longer , of what it never was and presently it becomes, etc. Secondly, because piracy involves not only a cultural question but, as well, an economical and a technological one. By instance, the new digital technologies are at their origin, of democratic spirit (I would even say, anarchist) and therefore, a challenge to the rigid concept of intellectual territory and propriety. It is important to think calmly and with accuracy on the different aspects of the question and establish an ample