Entre construções, diversões e memórias: lazer em Paulo Afonso/BA (1949-1961)

Abstract

Paulo Afonso, Bahia's northern city, is a key place for understanding of the history of Brazil of the twentieth century. During its hydroelectric development models that attracted the attention of scholars from various categories. The present work aims at the historical reading of leisure in its initial phase, from 1949 to 1961, since the city went beyond the works leaders and workers. Based on the New History, with the methods comparative and oral history, provides descriptions of how the fun and sociability that built the place, showing its cultural complexity and ethnic diversity that still arouses pleasant nostalgia in the local memory, with beautiful and impressive narratives of its researchers, pioneers and citizens.