Re-creating the poet's voice's space: memory between two worlds

Poet, singer, reciter, engraver, who, after a tragic illness in the vocal cords became a researcher and a writer, Jose Alves Sobrinho was one of the main nomad poet-singers on Northeast Brazil. His name is linked to a period deemed the golden age of Brazilian cantoria and brings a privileged testimony of this effervescent moment, marked by the transition to new technologies of information. Deeply embedded in these changing times, where the sung word loses progressively space to the printed one, Jose Alves knew, cleverly, recreate a space of dialogue between the letter and the poem. Following his intellectual and artistic trajectory, we can realize the creative ability of this poet and his pears, in the sense of recreating the needed possibilities to the maintenance, spreading, adaptation and survival of his art.