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In
Music and Cosmopolitanism, Cristina Magaldi examines music making in a past globalized world. This volume focuses on one city, Rio de Janeiro, and how it became part of a larger world through music and performance. Magaldi describes a process of creating connections beyond national borders, one that is familiar to contemporary city residents, but which was already dominant at the turn of the 20th century, as new technological developments led to alternative ways of making and experiencing music.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Cosmopolitanism and yhe City
- Chapter Two: A City To Be Seen and To Be Heard
- Chapter Three: A Tale of Three Anthems
- Chapter Four: Race in the Universal and Eternal Tradition
- Chapter Five: At The Cabaret
- Chapter Six: Diversifying
- Chapter Seven: Local Cosmopolitanisms
- Chapter Eight: The Widows
- Chapter Nine: Cosmopolitan Traditions
- Chapter Ten: Sounds Of Urban Worlds
- Chapter Eleven: A World of Many Musics
- 12. Concluding: Arriving at the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Cristina Magaldi is Professor Emerita at Towson University and holds degrees from the University of Brasília, the University of Reading, England, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on music during the 19th and 20th centuries, Latin American cultures, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. She is the author of Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu (2004) and her publications have appeared in Popular Music, Latin American Music Review, Musical Quarterly, among others.
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"An impressive panorama of the transnational and transcultural experiences that shaped the urban soundscape of Rio de Janeiro in the aftermath of monarchy and slavery. In a series of engaging case studies, Magaldi follows artists, communities, businesses, and specific musical works to make sense of the complex net of meanings that permeated the fragmented visions of modernity that emerged in this cosmopolitan city in the tropics."
