"In 1938, when the Department of Culture sponsored the Mission for Folklore Research, Mário de Andrade was faced by the dilemma of Modernity:  in the same pace popular manifestations were under the risk of vanishing due to growing urbanization in the country, the technology advance of the time provided means to capture those manifestations in discs, photographs, and films. "

Carlos Augusto Calil
Secretary of Culture of the city of São Paulo

"Now, the sound recording carried out by Mário de Andrade and his Mission gets out of the warehouse and is made available to the public in the collection of CDs.  Sixty years after the recording by the Mission, the commitment is sealed for a new stage – that of dispensing knowledge."

Danilo Santos de Miranda
Diretor regional do SESC São Paulo