Title: River of tears : country music, memory, and modernity in Brazil /
Authors: Dent, Alexander Sebastian
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: 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.
Contents: Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: Postauthoritarian memory and rurality.