El mito del origen indígena-jesuítico del cateretê en la historiografía brasileña

Since the late 19th century, Brazilian musical historiography has agreed on attributing indigenous and Jesuitical origins to the cateretê dance. This article analyses retrospectively the mythification of that explanation, from the authors who adopted it in the 20th century to General José Vieira Couto de Magalhães, in the late 19th century. A succinct study of the colonial chronicle on which this author based his work is carried out, highlighting parts which had been silenced. The article ends by relating the acceptance of the supposed IndigenousJesuitical origin of the cateretê dance to the social and historiographical context which produced it.