THE COMPULSORY MUSIC EDUCATION IN BRAZILIAN BASIC EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL PROCESS

Abstract

We aim, in this article, to contextualize the inclusion of music and its teaching in Brazilian educational policies through a brief historical-political recapture, analyzing the waywardness of Music Education in Brazil, since the Jesuit education until the emergence of the National Curriculum Parameters, announcing that the educational legislation establishes, for decades, a space for the Arts, in its various languages, in regular schools of Basic Education, but nevertheless, the presence of music in the school curriculum has been marked by uncertainty of a policy that would guarantee Music education as a school subject. We also indicate the opening of a new path to music in school education, through the enactment of Law 11.769/08, which establishes the obligation of Teaching Music, analyzing the process that culminated with the enactment of that Law. We conclude emphasizing some considerations and questions about the teaching of music in Basic Education Schools and postulating that investigate the situation of Music Education, discussing the possibilities and limitations of the new legislation that imposes itself, is part of the process of clearing a new path which reveals the possibility of democratization of music study.