Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship

Name: Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship
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ISBN: 9780822349068

ISBN-10: 082234906X

ISBN-13: 9780822349068

Edition: 2011

Authors: Idelber Avelar, Christopher Dunn, Adalberto Paranhos, Flavio Oliveira

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Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and citizenship in Brazil. While popular music has served as an effective resource for communities to stake claims to political, social, and cultural rights in Brazil, it has also been appropriated by the state in its efforts to manage and control a socially, racially, and geographically diverse nation. The question of citizenship has also been a recurrent theme in the work of many of Brazilrs"s most important musicians. These essays explore popular music in relation to national identity, social class, racial formations, community organizing,…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

John K. Nelson is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Christopher Dunn holds a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Tulane University. An affiliate of the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and codirector of the Brazilian Studies Council at Tulane, he is coeditor of Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization.



Acknowledgments


Introduction. Music as Practice of Citizenship in Brazil



Dissonant Voices under a Regime of Order-Unity: Popular Music and Work in the Estado Novo



Orpheonic Chant and the Construction of Childhood in Brazilian Elementary Education



Farewell to MPB



From Mr. Citizen to Defective Android: Tom Zï¿½ and Citizenship in Brazil



Rude Poetics of the 1980s: The Politics and Aesthetics of Os Titï¿½s



"We Live Daily in Two Countries": Audiotopias of Postdictatorship Brazil



Soundtracking Landlessness: Music and Rurality in the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra



Zhen Brasil's Japanese Brazilian Groove



Embodying the Favela: Representation, Mediation, and Citizenship in the Music of Bezerra da Silva



Hip-Hop in Sï¿½o Paulo: Identity, Community Formation, and Social Action



"Conquistando Espaï¿½o": Hip-Hop Occupations of Sï¿½o Paulo



Funk Music Made in Brazil: Media and Moral Panic



Technobrega, Forrï¿½, Lambadï¿½o: The Parallel Music of Brazil



"Tradition as Adventure": Black Music, New Afro-Descendant Subjects, and Pluralization of Modernity in Salvador da Bahia



Modernity, Agency, and Sexuality in the Pagode Baiano



Candeal and Carlinhos Brown: Social and Musical Contexts of an Afro-Brazilian Community



Of Mud Huts and Modernity: The Performance of Civic Progress at Arcoverde's Sï¿½o Joï¿½o Festival



Mangue Beat Music and the Coding of Citizenship in Sound



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