Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Dent, Alexander Sebastian.

Title River of tears : country music, memory, and modernity in Brazil / Alexander Sebastian Dent
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2009

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Rural music, intimacy, and memory -- What counts as "country"? rural performativity in the twentieth century -- Country brothers : kinship as chronotope -- Mixture, sadness, and intimacy in the Brazilian musical field -- Hick dialogics : experiencing the play of rural genres -- Teleologies of rural disappearance : interpreting rural music -- Digital droplets and analogue flames : the circulatory matrices of Brazilian country -- Producing rural locality -- Hicks of the world : the country cosmopolitan -- Postauthoritarian memory and rurality
Summary A study of caipira, Brazil's most indigenous country music, and the commodification of the rural in Brazilian popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
Print version record
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Country music -- Brazil -- History and criticism
Música sertaneja -- Brazil -- History and criticism
Country music -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Música sertaneja -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Country music -- Political aspects -- Brazil
Música sertaneja -- Political aspects -- Brazil
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Country & Bluegrass.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Country music
Country music -- Social aspects
Música sertaneja
Brazil
Brasilien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822391098
0822391090
9786613035912
6613035912