Contemporary Carioca : Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene / Frederick Moehn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moehn, Frederick, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music.

Music--Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

2012.

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture. Contemporary Carioca introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have reinvigorated Brazilian genres, such as samba and maracatu, through juxtaposition with international influences, including rock, techno, and funk. He describes how these artists manage their careers, having reclaimed some control from record labels. Examining the specific meanings that their fusions have in the Carioca scene, he explains that musical mixture is not only intertwined with nationalist discourses of miscegenation, but also with the experience of being middle-class in a country confronting neoliberal models of globalization. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Marcos Suzano

2 Lenine

3 Pedro Luís and The Wall

4 Fernanda Abreu

5 Paulinho Moska

6 On Cannibals and Chameleons

Appendix 1: About the Interviews, with a List of Interviews Cited

Appendix 2: Introductory Aspects of Marcos Suzano's Pandeiro Method

Notes

References

Discography

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091554

147809155X

OCLC:

1048715414

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_625243