Alexander Dent

River of Tears

Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345206
• ISBN-10: 082234520X
• Artikelnr.: 26551251

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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