Dent River of Tears

Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9109-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

A study of caipira, Brazil's most indigenous country music, and the commodification of the rural in Brazilian popular culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dent, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Rural Music, Intimacy, and Memory 1

1. What Counts as "Country"? Rural Performativity in the Twentieth Century 29

2. Country Brothers: Kinship as Chronotope 57

3. Mixture, Sadness, and Intimacy in the Brazilian Music Field 83

4. Hick Dialogics: Experiencing the Play of Rural Genres 108

5. Teleologies of Rural Disappearance: Interpreting Rural Music 136

6. Digital Droplets and Analogue Flames: The Circulatory Matrices of Brazilian Country 162

7. Producing Rural Locality 186

8. Hicks of the World: The Country Cosmopolitan 211

Conclusion: Postauthoritarian Memory and Rurality 239

Notes 251

Discography 267

Bibliography 269

Index 285

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Sebastian Dent is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University.