Between nostalgia and apocalypse
Subtitle: popular music and the staging of Brazil
By: Daniel B. Sharp
Series: Music/culture; Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780819575029; 9780819575012; 9780819575036
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Sambas; Cordel do Fogo Encantado (Musical group); History and criticism; Popular music; History
Other titles: Popular music and the staging of Brazil
Description: A close-to-the-ground account of musicians and dancers from Arcoverde, Pernambuco--a small city in the northeastern Brazilian backlands. The book's focus on samba de coco families, marked as bearers of tradition, and the band Cordel do Fogo Encantado, marketed as pop iconoclasts, offers a revealing portrait of performers engaged in new forms of cultural preservation during a post-dictatorship period of democratization and neoliberal reform.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151), discography (pages 151-152), filmography (page 152), and index.
Table of contents: title: Staging tradition; title: Museums; title: Nostalgia and apocalypse; title: Television; title: Festival; title: Tourism; title: Elegy; title: Epilogue.