In Praise of Improvisation in Brazilian Soccer: Modernism, Popular Music, and a Brasilidade of Sports
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Abstract
This essay presents a discussion on Modernist discourse about Brazilian soccer during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Though extant in disperse and incidental form, it is possible to compile a series of references about the Brazilian soccer phenomenon among the Modernist authors of São Paulo (Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, and Antônio de Alcântara Machado) and the Regionalists of the Northeast (Gilberto Freyre and José Lins do Rego). Based on poems, short stories, chronicles, and essays, this paper seeks to show how, starting in 1940, the Modernist discourse enthroned soccer in its project of constructing a Brazilian culture and identity. To do so, it seeks to show how the discourse of a Modernist Brazilianess (brasilidade)—already present in popular music and folklore during the 1920s—gave soccer its legitimacy in the cultural and artistic environment of the 1940s.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".