| Título: | A Country Critique of Brazilian Modernity. A Review of Alexander Dent's River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil (Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2009) |
| Autores: | Murphy, John |
| Fecha: | 2010-09-01 |
| Publicador: | Acontracorriente |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion review |
| Tema: |
Cultural Studies;Musicology modernity;country music;memory |
| Descripción: | When Alexander Dent arrived in Brazil in 1998, he was unaware of the existence of the rural genres that are the focus of this book. He had listened to bossa nova, MPB, Tropicália, death metal, forró, and techno, among other genres, but not música caipira and música sertaneja, the two genres under discussion here. Many readers may approach this book with a similar state of knowledge of the rural music of central-southern Brazil. For them and for experienced scholars of Brazilian music alike, this book has much to offer that is new on the level of content and interpretation. It investigates widely-held preconceptions of rural music: that rural lifestyles are disappearing, that the music is listened to primarily by rural migrants to large cities, and that since Brazilian country sounds so much like U.S. country there is little to learn about Brazilian culture from it. All will need to be rethought in the light of this work. |
| Idioma: |
eng spa |
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