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River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil - Couverture souple

Dent, Alexander

 
9780822345374: River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822345374 ISBN 13 : 9780822345374
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2009

Synopsis

River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil's central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called música caipira, heralded as música sertaneja's ancestor, also took shape. And all the while, large numbers of Brazilians in the central-south were moving to cities, using music to support the claim that their Brazil was first and foremost a rural nation.

Since 1998, Alexander Sebastian Dent has analyzed rural music in the state of São Paulo, interviewing and spending time with listeners, musicians, songwriters, journalists, record-company owners, and radio hosts. Dent not only describes the production and reception of this music, he also explains why the genre experienced such tremendous growth as Brazil transitioned from an era of dictatorship to a period of intense neoliberal reform. Dent argues that rural genres reflect a widespread anxiety that change has been too radical and has come too fast. In defining their music as rural, Brazil's country musicians-whose work circulates largely in cities-are criticizing an increasingly inescapable urban life characterized by suppressed emotions and an inattentiveness to the past. Their performances evoke a river of tears flowing through a landscape of loss-of love, of life in the countryside, and of man's connections to the natural world.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822345374
ISBN 13 
9780822345374
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
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