Contemporary Carioca Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene

• Autor principal: Moehn, Frederick (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Durham NC Duke University Press 2012
• Materias: World music; Music; Brazil; Lenine (musician); Samba; Suzano
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Sumario

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.

ISBN

oapen_625243
9780822394884

Acceso

Open Access