Record it, and Let it be Known - Song Lyrics, Gender, and Ethnicity in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago from 1920 to 1960 (Paperback)

Popular music from Brazil and the Caribbean belongs to those cultural practices that are considered, both inside and outside of their countries of origin, to bear the indelible marks of ethnicity. On the basis of a corpus made up of over one thousand songs recorded between 1920 and 1960 in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago, This book offers an exemplary textual analysis of the ways in which these countries' main musical genres staged the encounters of the identity categories of ethnicity and gender in song lyrics during the decades preceding the emergence of more ideologically conscious musical currents. Special attention is paid to the following topics: the relations between ethnicity and national identity; the presence of Africa and slavery; the presentation of the gendered and ethnically marked body; and, finally, the description of cultural blackness.

General

Imprint:	Lit Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	December 2007
Authors:	Christopher F. Laferl
Dimensions:	209 x 147 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-3-8258-7636-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
LSN:	3-8258-7636-5
Barcode:	9783825876364

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