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 Brazil's most important
musicians. These essays explore popular music in relation to
national identity, social class, racial formations, community
organizing, political protest, and emergent forms of distribution
and consumption. Contributors examine the cultural politics of
samba in the 1930s, the trajectory of middle-class musical
sensibility associated with Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB), rock
and re-democratization in the 1980s, music and black identity in
Bahia, hip hop and community organizing in Sao Paulo, and the
repression of "baile funk" in Rio in the 1990s. Among other topics,
they consider the use of music by the Landless Workers' Movement,
the performance of identity by Japanese Brazilian musicians, the
mangue beat movement of Recife, and the emergence of new regional
styles, such as "lambadao" and "tecnobrega," ""that circulate
outside of conventional distribution channels. Taken together, the
essays reveal the important connections between citizenship,
national belonging, and Brazilian popular music.
"Contributors." Idelber Avelar, Christopher Dunn, Joao Freire
Filho, Goli Guerreiro, Micael Herschmann, Ari Lima, Aaron Lorenz,
Shanna Lorenz, Angelica Madeira, Malcolm K. McNee, Frederick Moehn,
Flavio Oliveira, Adalberto Paranhos, Derek Pardue, Marco Aurelio
Paz Tella, Osmundo Pinho, Carlos Sandroni, Daniel Sharp, Hermano
Vianna, Wivian Weller
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