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This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century.
List of contents
List of Illustrations Preface 1. Chiclete con Banana: Internationalization in Brazilian Popular Music, Charles A. Perrone and Christopher Dunn 2. Carmen Mirandadada, Caetano Veloso 3. Myth, Melopeia, and Mimesis: Black Orpheus, Orfeu, and Internationalization in Brazilian Popular Music, Charles A. Perrone 4. Tropicália, Counterculture, and the Diasporic Imagination in Brazil, Christopher Dunn 5. Globalizing Caetano Veloso: Globalization as Seen through a Brazilian Pop Prism, Liv Socik 6. Cannibals, Mutants, and Hipsters: The Tropicalist Revival, John J. Harvey 7. Defeated Rallies, Mournful Anthems, and the Origins of Brazilian Heavy Metal, Idleber Avelar 8. The Localization of Global Funk in Bahia and in Rio, Livio Sansone 9. World of Fantasy, Fantasy of the World: Geographic Space and Representation of Identity in the Carnival of Salvador, Bahia, Milton Araújo Moura 10. Songs of Olodum: Ethnicity, Activism, and Art in Globalized Carnival Community, Piers Armstrong 11. Fogo na Babilonia: Reggae, Black Counterculture, and Globalization in Brazil, Osmundo de Araújo Pinho 12. Reggae and Samba-Reggae in Bahia: A Case of Long-distance Belonging, Antonio J. V. dos Santos Godi 13. Black or Brau: Music and Subjectivity in a Global Context, Ari Lima 14. Turned-Around Beat: Maracatu de Basque Virado amd Chico Science, Larry Crook 15. Self-Discovery in Brazilian Popular Music: Mestre Ambrósio, John Murphy 16. Good Blood in the Veins of This Brazilian Rio, or a Cannibalist Transnationalism, Fredrick Moehn Contributors Copyrights and Acknowledgements Index
About the author
Charles A. Perrone (PhD Texas 1985) is Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Florida. He is the author of Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985 (Texas, 1989), Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry since Modernism (Duke, 1996) and translators/editor of several books. He lives in Jacksonville, FL.Christopher Dunn (Ph D Brown 1996) is Assistant Professor at Tulane University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and in the African and African Diaspora Studies Program. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the Tropicalist movement in Brazil and a contributor to Encarta on Afro-Brazilian topics including new popular music. He lives in New Orleans, LA.
