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Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011

About this book

Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the important links between citizenship, national belonging, and popular music in Brazil.

Author / Editor information

Idelber Avelar is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. He is the author of The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics and The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning, also published by Duke University Press.

Christopher Dunn is Associate Professor of Brazilian literary and cultural studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture and a co-editor of Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization.

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“Idelber Avelar’s and Christopher Dunn’s book is not only an invaluable aid in understanding the complex relationship between culture and politics in Brazil. It also helps us to understand how culture and politics act together in forming our common future, and even suggests ways in which we as citizens might have a hand in determining how things turn out.”—Arto Lindsay, musician and artist

“This book is quite important for understanding the significance of music in Brazil. It shows that music—as a complex social, cultural, artistic, and even political phenomenon—was part and parcel of the constitution of citizenship. Music has been a crucial constitutive factor in Brazilians’ sense of belonging.”—George Yúdice, author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era

“Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship is a significant contribution to the discussions of the Latin American social movements, cultural politics, and participatory democracy that have been taking place in the academy, policy circles, and among grassroots movements over the last 20 years. The international currency of cultural citizenship discourses, together with the present proliferation of musical expressions from Brazil’s peripheries, make this a timely publication, and its rich case studies will be of interest to scholars in cultural studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines.”

-- Darien Lamen The Americas

“[T]hought-provoking. . . .”

-- Clive Bell The Wire

“Since ethnomusicologists have noticed and bemoaned the neglect of music in introductory anthropology courses and texts (which is all that most students will ever see of the subject), this powerful anthology will hopefully encourage anthropologists to take more seriously the place of music in contemporary politics and identity and to integrate that topic—surely one that students would enjoy hearing—into their teaching and writing.”

-- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database

“[A] fascinating book…. the crucial role that Brazilian music plays in the social and political sphere makes this book relevant for a variety of academic disciplines and important beyond any scholarly trend.”

-- Kavin Paulraj Hispanic American Historical Review

"[A]n excellent source for anyone interested in Brazilian popular music in relation to power, identity, race, and the cultural industry.”

-- Rogerio Budasz Music and Letters

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

    ix
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    Introduction. Music as Practice of Citizenship in Brazil

    1
    Idelber Avelar and Christopher Dunn
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    Dissonant Voices under a Regime of Order–Unity: Popular Music and Work in the Estado Novo

    28
    Adalberto Paranhos
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    Orpheonic Chant and the Construction of Childhood in Brazilian Elementary Education

    44
    Flávio Oliveira
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    Farewell to MPB

    64
    Carlos Sandroni
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    From Mr. Citizen to Defective Android: Tom Zé and Citizenship in Brazil

    74
    Christopher Dunn
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    Rude Poetics of the 1980s: The Politics and Aesthetics of Os Titãs

    96
    Angélica Madeira
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    “We Live Daily in Two Countries”: Audiotopias of Postdictatorship Brazil

    109
    Frederick Moehn
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    Soundtracking Landlessness: Music and Rurality in the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra

    131
    Malcolm K. McNee
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    Zhen Brasil’s Japanese Brazilian Groove

    155
    Shanna Lorenz
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    Embodying the Favela: Representation, Mediation, and Citizenship in the Music of Bezerra da Silva

    172
    Aaron Lorenz
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    Hip-Hop in São Paulo: Identity, Community Formation, and Social Action

    188
    Wivian Weller and Marco Aurélio Paz Tella
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    “Conquistando Espaço”: Hip-Hop Occupations of São Paulo

    205
    Derek Pardue
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    Funk Music Made in Brazil: Media and Moral Panic

    223
    João Freire Filho and Micael Herschmann
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    Technobrega, Forró, Lambadão: The Parallel Music of Brazil

    240
    Hermano Vianna
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    “Tradition as Adventure”: Black Music, New Afro- Descendant Subjects, and Pluralization of Modernity in Salvador da Bahia

    250
    Osmundo Pinho
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    Modernity, Agency, and Sexuality in the Pagode Baiano

    267
    Ari Lima
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    Candeal and Carlinhos Brown: Social and Musical Contexts of an Afro-Brazilian Community

    278
    Goli Guerreiro
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    Of Mud Huts and Modernity: The Performance of Civic Progress at Arcoverde’s São João Festival

    291
    Daniel Sharp
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    Mangue Beat Music and the Coding of Citizenship in Sound

    313
    Idelber Avelar
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    Works Cited

    331
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    Contributors

    353
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    Index

    357
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