Nos salões do Instituto: o violão de Catulo, Olga Praguer e a canção popular.

The Instituto Nacional da Música (National Music Institute), a cultural venue well-known for the practice and promotion of Brazilian concert music, exceptionally held recitals in the first decades of the 20th century, presenting the works of artists identified with popular urban music. The legitimation of the presence of the "typical song", usually accompanied by the guitar, was due to the involvement of these musicians in the main discussion that fomented culture in that period: the valuing of a "genuinely" Brazilian art. We try, in this article, to highlight the strategies that underlie the diffusion of this repertoire, through the observation of the performance of important intellectuals and the presentations made in the institute's salons by three illustrious artists: Catulo Cearense, Ernesto Nazareth and Olga Praguer Coelho. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]