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Music in Brazil, experiencing music, expressing culture, John P. Murphy

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-166) and index

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Music in Brazil

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John P. Murphy

Global music series

experiencing music, expressing culture

As the largest nation in Latin America, Brazil is home to some of the most celebrated music in the world. Music in Brazil covers a wide spectrum of this music, including samba, bossa nova, Tropicália, and MPB (Música Popular Brasileira); regional traditional and popular music; Brazilian rock, rap, and electronica; and such genres as sertaneja (similar to country-and-western music) and brega (sentimental pop). Music in Brazil is organized the themes of unity, diversity, cosmopolitanism, and verbal artistry. It shows how Brazilian music expresses the unity of the country's culture, discussing, for example, how samba plays a major part in annual Carnaval celebrations and provides a focus for nationalist sentiment. In contrast, the book also demonstrates how music represents the diversity of Brazilian culture, describing how each of Brazil's regions is home to unique genres of music, and how the audiences for various types of music reflect class distinctions. In addition, author John P. Murphy presents examples of cosmopolitan Brazilian music and emphasizes the connections between music and other aspects of Brazilian culture, especially language and gender. Enhanced by vivid illustrations and guided listening activities, this book is a captivating introduction to the music of Brazil. It is packaged with a 60-minute audio CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, many of which are taken from the author's field recordings [Publisher description]Publisher description, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/2005049867-d.html

BOOK. I. Music and national identity -- 1. Samba, Brazil's national music -- Carnaval in Recife : traditional musics and current pop in a historic setting -- Samba in Rio de Janeiro : music from the Morros -- Varieties of samba : not just for carnival -- The history of samba : from marginal to national -- Samba percussion -- The malandro and the mulata : samba and gender roles -- "The mystery of samba" -- Carmen Miranda brings the samba to Hollywood -- Samba and carnival : the sambadrome and beyond -- Pagode -- Samba today : a range of meanings -- Samba Raro -- Eu Tiro é Onda -- The song "O Mistério do Samba" -- 2. Projecting Brazilian identity nationally and internationally -- Choro : an early Rio de Janeiro instrumental style -- The emergence of choro -- Northeastern influences -- Pixinguinha -- Jacob do Bandolim and Waldir Azevedo -- The choro revival -- Choro, art music, and jazz -- Women in choro -- Choro's current vitality -- Brazilian art music briefly surveyed -- Bossa nova : the intimate samba sound known worldwide -- The term bossa nova -- A bossa nova classic -- "The girl from Ipanema" -- Other ways of playing bossa nova -- Bossa nova and jazz -- The sound of a modernizing Brazil -- Tropicália : cultural cannibalism, late '60s style -- MPB : sophisticated songwriting with a political edge -- Música brega : sentimental songs loved by millions -- The romantic balladry of Robert Carlos -- II. Music and regional identity -- 3. Expressing Afro-Brazilian and indigenous identity -- Capoeira : music, movement, and the legacy of Zumbi -- The orquestra and the berimbau -- Capoeira : other American martial arts and the African heritage -- Capoeira : resistance and revolt -- Capoeira regional and Atual -- Music of Brazil's indigenous peoples -- Music of the Kayapó-Kikrin : a ritual of an Amazonian people -- The Kayapó and the environment -- Inspired by indigenous music -- Popular music in the Amazon region -- 4. The sound of the Northeast -- Bumba-meu-boi and cavalo-marinho : the drama of the magical ox -- Cavalo-marinho performers and audiences -- Three master performers of cavalo-marinho -- Cavalo-marinho performance contexts -- A cavalo-marinho performance -- Cavalo-marinho today -- Maracatu : Afro-Brazilian carnival genre with a sacred side -- A sambada -- Maracutu rural -- Siba and Barachinha's "Catimbo" -- Baião and forró : accordion-driven dance music -- Luiz Gonzaga and the baião -- Luiz Gonzaga's music and the invention of the Northeast -- Arlindo dos Oito Baixos and instrumental forró -- The technique of the sanfona de oito baixos -- The symbolic importance of the sanfona de oito baixos -- The tune -- Meter -- Bellows -- Rhythmic accompaniment -- Forró and Northeastern identity -- 5. Expressing Southern Brazilian identity -- Música caipira : rural music of the South -- Música caipira in a sacred context : Folias de Reis -- Música caipira in a secular context -- Cantoria -- Música caipira on records and radio -- The viola caipira -- Robert Corrêa and the viola caipira -- Música sertaneja : Brazilian "country" music -- Música gaúcha : celebrating Brazil's Far South -- The nativist movement in Rio Grande do Sul -- Traditionalist música gaúcha : Leonardo -- Renato Borghetti and progressive música gaúcha -- The sound of the South -- Popular music and social action in Porto Alegre -- III. Musical cosmopolitanism -- 6. The innovative music and scene of Recife -- Brazilian music and cosmopolitanism -- Cássie Eller -- Tribalistas -- Hermeto pascoal -- The mangue movement, Chico Science & Nação -- Zumbi, and popular music in Recife -- Mundo Livre S/A : working toward a free world -- Devotos : a hardcore look at life in Recife -- Faces do Subúrbio : rap and embolada from the Alto José do Pinho -- DJ Dolores e Orchestra Santa Massa : electronic maracatu -- Comandre Florzinha and women's participation in the Recife scene -- Conclusion -- GlossaryCD. 1. Lingua de Preto (2:59) / Honorino Lopes -- 2. Rei Zumbi Dos Palmares (1:34) -- 3. Chula (0:45) -- 4. Santa Bárbara (1:23) -- 5. Angola (2:24) -- 6. Nhiok : Okkaikrikti (2:10) -- 7. Que estrela é aquela (1:11) -- 8. Inácio's toada (0:58) -- 9. Rabeca baianos (3:18) -- 10. Boi toada (0:48) -- 11. Boi toada (3:14) -- 12. Catimbo (7:17) -- 13. Forró em Monteiro (0:55) / Arlindo dos Oito Baixos -- 14. Forró em Monteiro (1:34) / Arlindo dos Oito Baixos -- 15. Queluzindo (3:17) / Roberto Corrêa -- 16. Céu, Sol, Sul, Terra e Cor (excerpt, 2:57) / Leonardo -- 17. Milonga Para as Missões (3:14) / Gilberto Monteiro -- 18. O Outro Mundo de Xicão Xukuru (5:33) / lyrics by Fred04 ; music by Fred04, Bac, Tony, Areia, Marcelo Pianinho, and Fábio Goró -- 19. Meu País (4:51) / lyrics by Cannibal ; music by Devotos -- 20. Perito em Rima (3:55) / Faces do Subúrbio -- 21. Samba de Dez Linhas (5:43) / Maciel Salustiano