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"Record it, and let it be known" : song lyrics, gender and ethnicity in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago from 1920 to 1960 / Christopher F. Laferl.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3475 .L34 2005
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Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 32261 1 disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laferl, Christopher F.
- Series:
- Literatur (Lit (Firm)) ; Bd. 6.
- Literatur Forschung und Wissenschaft ; Bd. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity in music.
- Ethnicity in music.
- Popular music--Brazil--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Brazil.
- Popular music--Cuba--History and criticism.
- Cuba.
- Popular music--Martinique--History and criticism.
- Popular music--Trinidad and Tobago--History and criticism.
- Popular music--Brazil--Texts.
- Martinique.
- Trinidad and Tobago.
- Songs--Cuba--Texts.
- Songs.
- Songs--Martinique--Texts.
- Songs--Trinidad and Tobago--Texts.
- Popular music--Brazil.
- Popular music--Cuba.
- Popular music--Martinique.
- Popular music--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Ethnic music recordings--Brazil.
- Ethnic music recordings--Cuba.
- Ethnic music recordings--Martinique.
- Ethnic music recordings--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Brazil.
- Ethnic music recordings--Cuba.
- Ethnic music recordings--Martinique.
- Ethnic music recordings--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Physical Description:
- 380 pages ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Wien : LIT, [2005]
- Summary:
- 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, Record it, and let it be known 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.
- Contents:
- Demography 19
- Ethnicity, society, and politics 23
- Ethnicity and culture 34
- Popular music, ethnicity, gender, and commercialization 40
- The corpus 47
- Part I Structure, Topics, Genres
- Preliminary Remarks 53
- Text and music 53
- Song lyrics and poetry 56
- Song lyrics and meaning 62
- The Enunciative Structure of Song Lyrics 68
- "I" and "you" - Gender 74
- No gendering 75
- Direct gendering in the text 76
- Indirect gendering by context 77
- "I" and "you" - Ethnicity 83
- Direct marking of ethnicity 84
- Indirect marking of ethnicity 88
- "I" and "you" - Gender and ethnicity 94
- Main Topics 97
- Main Genres 102
- Samba 102
- Marcha 109
- Bolero and samba-cancao 111
- Son 115
- Beguine 118
- Calypso - The exception 124
- Part II Ethnicity, Gender, Nationhood
- Ethnicity and History: Past and Present 133
- Africa 133
- Slavery and emancipation 138
- Exploitation and poverty in the 20th century 150
- "Adieu foulard! Adieu madras!" 163
- Ethnicity: "Nature" 169
- The unmarked and the single-marked body 169
- The double-marked body 175
- Women 176
- Black women 176
- Mulatto women 185
- The Brazilian morena 189
- White women 192
- Indian women 193
- Asian women 194
- Men 195
- Black men 195
- Mulatto men 202
- White men 205
- Indian men 207
- East Indian men 208
- Exceptional interactions 210
- "Brown Skin Girl" 221
- Ethnicity: Culture 226
- Music, dance, and carnival 226
- Afro-Latin American religions 235
- Food and clothing 248
- "Babalu" 258
- Ethnicity and National Identity 263
- Defining the whole 263
- The whole and its parts - center and periphery 274
- National and foreign 284
- "Aquarela do Brasil" 297
- Appendix Corpus of Songs 311
- 1 Theory and methodology 334
- 2 Latin American culture, history, literature, and music 337
- 3 Brazil 340
- 4 Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean 344
- 5 Martinique and the French Caribbean 348
- 6 Trinidad and the English Caribbean 350
- 7.1 Brazil 353
- 7.2 Cuba 354
- 7.3 Martinique 356
- 7.4 Trinidad 356.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical and discographical references and index.
- Contents of compact disc with credits on p. 380.
- ISBN:
- 3825876365
- OCLC:
- 62749453
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