Culture & IdeasThe 1930s

Culture & Ideas in the 1930s

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1930s, tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
1932
Latest
1932

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. — Africa:

    Cape Verde

    The morna and Creole letters

    The poet Eugénio Tavares of Brava elevated the morna to a literary art in Cape Verdean Creole; the song-form of love, parting and sodade would later be carried worldwide by Cesária Évora.

    Era: Creole culture, the coaling port, and the years of hunger

    Sources: Eugénio Tavares · Wikipedia, The story of morna: Cape Verde's music of displacement and return · Al Jazeera, Morna, musical practice of Cabo Verde · UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage