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

by Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)

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New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Popular music -- Brazil -- History and criticism.

Folk music -- Brazil -- History and criticism.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/2005049867-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/2005049867-t.html

0195166841 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

9780195166842 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0195166833 (alk. paper)

9780195166835 (alk. paper)

Global music series

xviii, 173 p. : ill., map, music ; 22 cm. + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

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 -- Glossary.

CD. 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.

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