Contemporary Carioca: technologies of mixing in a Brazilian music scene

TY - BOOK

T1 - Contemporary Carioca

T2 - technologies of mixing in a Brazilian music scene

AU - Moehn, Frederick

N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265), discography (p. [267]-268) and index

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - 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, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn 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. Moehn highlights the creativity of individual artists, including Marcos Suzano, Lenine, Pedro Luís, Fernanda Abreu, and Paulinho Moska. 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. At the same time, he illuminates the inseparability of race, gender, class, place, national identity, technology, and expressive practice in Carioca music and its making. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies.

AB - 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, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn 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. Moehn highlights the creativity of individual artists, including Marcos Suzano, Lenine, Pedro Luís, Fernanda Abreu, and Paulinho Moska. 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. At the same time, he illuminates the inseparability of race, gender, class, place, national identity, technology, and expressive practice in Carioca music and its making. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies.

KW - Popular music

KW - Sound

KW - Brazil

KW - mixture

KW - hybridity

KW - Antropofagia

KW - cultural cannibalism

KW - Rio de Janeiro

KW - Deleuze

KW - Becoming

KW - middle class

KW - Bordieu

KW - Fernanda Abreu

KW - Lenine

KW - Marcos Suzano

KW - Paulinho Moska

KW - Pedro Luís

KW - Monobloco

KW - South Zone

KW - Race, dispute of the New World, indigenismo, Manuel Gamio, Jose Vasconcelos, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Fernando Ortiz, Raça, disputa sobre o Novo Mundo, indigenismo, Manuel Gamio, Jose Vasconcelos, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Fernando Ortiz

KW - Tom Capone

KW - Chico Neves

KW - neoliberalism

KW - Fernando Henrique Cardoso

KW - Real Plan

KW - national identity

KW - rock

KW - samba

KW - funk

KW - maracatu

KW - ciranda

KW - embolada

KW - Nordeste

KW - Pernambuco

M3 - Book

SN - 0822351412

SN - 9780822351412

SN - 9780822351559

SN - 0822351552

BT - Contemporary Carioca

PB - Duke University Press

CY - Durham

ER -