Rádio que parla d'amore: memórias do amor e de um país imaginado como romântico.

This paper presents the radio program named Dick Danello Parlando d’Amore which stayed on the air of stations in the state of São Paulo from 1981 to 2016. The program can be understood as a document that integrates the radio memory of Brazil and reveals an understudied genre: programs for immigrants and their descendants. The article aims to analyze this language as letters from listeners, music selection, the language used by the performer Dick Danello. The theoretical basis of this study is formed by theories of the radio, of listening and affections pointing to the relevance of the sense of hearing and the bonds involving performers and listeners for the radio experience as well as studies on love and romantic songs. Interviews and consultations to archive documents are also part of its methodological route. This article is expected to demonstrate the importance of love bonds for the construction of memory that programs targeting the community of Italian immigrants have produced throughout the history of the radio in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]