River of tears
Subtitle: country music, memory, and modernity in Brazil
By: Alexander Sebastian Dent.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780822345206; 9780822345374
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rural music, intimacy, and memory; title: What counts as "country"? rural performativity in the twentieth century; title: Country brothers : kinship as chronotope; title: Mixture, sadness, and intimacy in the Brazilian musical field; title: Hick dialogics : experiencing the play of rural genres; title: Teleologies of rural disappearance : interpreting rural music; title: Digital droplets and analogue flames : the circulatory matrices of Brazilian country; title: Producing rural locality; title: Hicks of the world : the country cosmopolitan; title: Postauthoritarian memory and rurality.