SOME AMUSEMENTS FROM THE SOUTH OF MINAS GERAIS (1891-1930)

Abstract

This article presents some amusements experienced by the population of some cities of the Southern Region of Minas Gerais between the last decade of the nineteenth-century and the early decades of the twentieth century througt their representations in the press of that time. In this period the conjuncture of some cities were strongly influenced by the ideals of progress, where amusements were constitutent parts of the desire of those cities to achieve this goal. The emergence of football, the existence of fun-oriented clubs to some inhabitants of the region and other constitutive elements of fun life of those people, appeared on the pages of newspapers impregnated with the senses and meanings of those wrote on their pages. The citation of the amusements experienced by the inhabitants of the region were also an element of their culture, with contradictions, antagonisms and peculiarities of who encouraged and experienced the amusements at that time.