I actually did not have formal learning in cultural literacy, but I received the right influence from some members of my family and from close relationships. I was twelve years old when I read at the first time one famous magazine in Brazil called “veja” which means “see” in English. After that I would read the book review section and some reports about music every single weekend. The editor of that section would write a list of the best-sellers and of the best long-players – LPs as we have called them at that time. As Brazilian people had lived for a long time under a dictatorship, they were fed up with cultural censorship and they were avid of knowledge such as music, painting, literature and Culture. So was I. Although I was born in the plenty light of the military tyranny, I was a teenager who liked to read a lot and listen to “different” kind of music. I have found out the revolutionary musical rhythm of “bossa-nova” made in Brazil and exported to the rest of the world by Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto. And simultaneously I had also my first contact with the “Tropicalia” – a cultural movement in Brazil – listening to the music of Caetano Veloso. In his long-players I found out the poetry of Haroldo de Campos and of other Brazilian poets who leaded me forward the worldly literature and then to the philosophy. As I was growing, by suggestion of my uncles, I used to enjoy my time reading Russian, French and American literature, including the main books of Fiodor Dostoievski, Victor Hugo, and Ernest Hemingway. When I got into at high-school it was the turn of philosophy and I started to read Germany Philosophy such as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. The music of Richard Wagner came to me automatically after then. At that time I made important and cultured friends who helped me increasing my level of knowledge about music, painting and literature, especially because one of them was a pianist and the other was a painter. I was seventeen and had a lot of spare time to read books, visit museums, go to the theater and see all festivals of cinema. I am not sure if it is the best way to acquire Culture literacy, but it was how I did – by sharing experiences.
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All I can say acout your cultual literacy is... you have good experience to share with your friends. That's the best way to be interested in arts!
oh my gosh.......i admire u so much....u have so many special experiences....i think that's the main reason that u can learn a lot even though u dont have that kind of surroundings......i really agree with u that family influences people's learning a lot. cuz for me, i have the same experience ....my parents concentrate on children's learning not only in school stuff but also the knowledge outside the classroom......so, in my opinion, family needs to take more responsibility to cultivate children's literacy.
Adriano your literacy is realy interesting.You always have a lot information
my god...it is very interesting to know various kind of thing. I think you are such a enthusiastic person to learn he new things. hehehe
That is why you have a good and detailed knowledge of everything. hehehe
I think that the knowledge of everyone, is something that could be improved in many different ways. I mean, the background it's important, because you really can understand who are you, only if you look back in your past.
School, family, society were the roots which you got out from, but it's only the firs step in your life. How could you "feed" your culture, it depends on what you could possibly gain from it, and it depends on all kind of experiences that you can deal with.
We're lucky, we live in a global society, where it's possible to know everything, to learn from all environments, and we should do the best to make our knowledge useful!
Laura
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