Desde a morte de meu pai, Itamar Assumpção, em 2003, eu e minha pequena família de mulheres estamos articulando, orientando, organizando e disponibilizando ao público seu legado musical, baseadas, principalmente, no que absorvemos do pensamento artístico de Itamar.

Algumas ações executadas foram fundamentais para que esse processo se consolidasse com força: o lançamento do disco gravado com Naná Vasconcelos, Isso Vai Dar Repercussão, em 2004, um ano após sua morte, e o Livro de Canções e Histórias de Itamar – Por Que Que Eu Não Pensei Nisso Antes? ”, em 2006. Nesse mesmo ano, começamos as negociações com o Selo Sesc, na tentativa de viabilizar aquele que é o box com toda a discografia de Itamar remasterizada, e mais dois discos de músicas inéditas. A Caixa Preta (à dir.) foi lançada em 2010.
Os discos inéditos, chamados Pretobras 2 – Maldito Vírgula e Pretobras 3 – Devia Ser Proibido, produzidos por Beto Villares e Paulinho Lepetit, respectivamente, encerram a trilogia imaginada por Itamar e iniciada com Pretobras – Por Que Que Eu Não Pensei Nisso Antes, em 1998 – muito antes do ano do lançamento da Caixa Preta. Como compositor compulsivo e artista disposto ao trabalho que era, ele deixou as músicas prontas e registradas em diversos lugares.
Finalmente, no ano de 2011, foi lançado o longa-documentário Daquele Instante em Diante, que esteve em cartaz por cerca de 40 dias – sem cobrança de ingresso – em todas as salas Itaú-Unibanco do Brasil. O filme, sucesso de público e crítica, continua a ser exibido eventualmente e gratuitamente. Há pouco, o diretor, Rogério Velloso, num movimento arrojado e corajoso, disponibilizou o filme na rede de computadores. Declaro que essa movimentação foi apoiada por mim e por minha família, já que acreditamos no conhecimento e na informação livres, assim como deveriam ser livres – inclusive da burocracia – TODAS as formas de expressões artísticas.
Ao pensar em uma provável biografia de meu pai, obviamente tenho como ideal a situação de estarmos (as herdeiras) acompanhando o processo de escrita, inclusive para contribuirmos com a verdade fundamental – e a não-fundamental – de sua história. Sem sombra de dúvidas, reunimos elementos informativos e afetivos de extrema relevância para o mínimo de entendimento sobre o artista e sua obra. Especialmente minha mãe, Elizena, esposa e companheira de Itamar em seus últimos 35 anos de vida.
No entanto, e talvez por considerar demais improvável a possibilidade de algum biógrafo começar a trabalhar num projeto literário sobre Itamar Assumpção sem antes passar por essas três humanidades primordiais – eu, Zena e Anelis –, considero qualquer tipo de restrição e impedimento jurídico/financeiro/institucional (emoldurados pela forma mais primitiva do capitalismo) ao legado cultural deixado por Itamar – e por outros fazedores de arte – de uma cafonice que só é possível mesmo encontrar no Brasil de meus deuses baianos! Esse monopólio de ações e maniqueísmos na área dita “cultural”é absurdamente retrógrado e obtuso.
É importante que se saiba que as ações de continuidade, derivadas do trabalho de uma vida inteira de Itamar, merecem e precisam de afirmações e revistas constantes e, sim, esperamos e estamos obtendo com elas todo o respaldo financeiro que não apenas nos fora dado por direito legal, mas principalmente, fortemente confiados por meu pai durante toda a sua vida.
Ora. Por que abriríamos mão do mais importante fio condutor da postura artística de Itamar, exatamente essa dignidade e esse sentido de justiça-equilíbrio, incontestes?
Por isso, pessoalmente, não apóio nenhuma vertente de censura. Ainda mais essa que deselegantemente tem se apresentado, a censura reacionária. Aprendi bem pequena que nem tudo o dinheiro compra – ou compra o suposto pequeno poder. Não compram, por exemplo, a memória de um artista talentoso. Não compram o trânsito livre, o livre pensar, o livre fazer, o livre gostar, a liberdade, em toda sua subjetividade sofisticada.
Não compram o caráter sem a mácula da demagogia e do bom-mocismo.
E definitivamente, não compram a paz de um espírito.
(Dedico este texto às memórias de Itamar Assumpção, Wilson Baptista, Clementina de Jesus, Nelson Cavaquinho, Geraldo Filme, Cartola e João da Baiana.)
(Serena Assumpção é cantora e filha de um dos maiores gênios da música brasileira, Itamar Assumpção.)

Somos o único veículo crítico e progressista dedicado exclusivamente ao jornalismo cultural, nas suas mais variadas frentes: livros, filmes, música, artes, teatro etc. Se você chegou até aqui é porque está do nosso lado. Ajude FAROFAFÁ a fortalecer o debate e a cultura brasileira.





Lindo seu texto.
Fiz também uma pequena homenagem ao maravilhoso Itamar e Leminski. Berenice Toledo
Isso, sim, é gente de cabeça aberta. Gente que valoriza a cultura e o legado pessoal e cultural de um artista. Parabéns, meninas!
você,sua familia e ele
estão acima da mesmice deste mundo hipocrita
sou fã
tive o privilégio de assisti lo
moro numa ecovila na bahia agora
mas nascida em sp e tb moradora do rj
quero 1 mundo + legal,+ justo para nós todos
beijooooooooooo e abraço
ja tinha conhecido vc por 1 link de uma amiga comum que fez 1 filme e pude ver e ouvir vc
Ruth! Quanto tempo! Perdoe me intrometer, mas… o que é uma ecovila?!?! :-O
Textão, dale! Fia de pexe…
Fazendo jus à memória do grande Itamar. Ótimo texto.
Como é bom ver o legado de Itamar Assumpção, em todos os sentidos.
Semana passada vi o show da Anelis Assumpção e fiquei muito bem impressionado.
Muito bom o texto. Trabalho com músicas e vídeos de Itamar Assumpção nas minhas aulas de Artes (IFRO Campus Colorado do Oeste – RO), enquanto ícone na história da música no Brasil.
Juro que estava, neste seu texto, vendo seu pai e me deliciei com cada palavra! Sou da geração Lira Paulistana então minha adolescência tem Itamar como trilha sonora e cada vez que vocês divulgam o trabalho dele sinto uma alegria imensa! parabéns!
Beleza é beleza. Liberdade é liberdade. E direito a privacidade é também outra coisa.
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