ABSTRACT
Made in Brazil: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century Brazilian popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of Brazilian music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Brazil. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Brazilian popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Brazil, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: Samba and Choro; History, Memory, and Representations; Scenes and Artists; and Music, Market and New Media.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part I|42 pages
Samba and Choro
chapter 2|13 pages
Choro Manuscript Collections of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
part II|38 pages
History, Memory, and Representations
chapter 4|14 pages
Historical Recordings of Wind Bands (1902–1927)
part III|68 pages
Scenes and Artists
chapter 7|13 pages
Marks of a Recent Antropofagia
chapter 9|12 pages
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi
chapter 10|13 pages
I Sing Everywhere
part IV|2 pages
Music, Market, and New Media
