Music, Mixing and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro

This article explores a music production setting centred in a relatively privileged neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro known as the 'South Zone', where the author conducted participant-observation field research and interviews during 1998-9 and in 2007. It focuses on the meanings and uses of...

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Published in:Ethnomusicology forum 2008-11, Vol.17 (2), p.165-202
Main Author: Moehn, Frederick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abreu, Fernanda
Brazil
Brazilian culture
Brazilian music
Cities
Cultural Attitudes
Cultural identity
Disco Music
Ethnomusicology
Fernanda Abreu
Field work
Field Work (Research)
Funk
Funk Music
Hybridity
Metaphor
Middle Class
Mixing (Recording)
Mixture
Modernist art
Modernity
Music instrumentation
Musical aesthetics
Musical performance
Musicians
National identity
Nationalism
Participant observation
Pop Musicians
Popular Music
Rock music
Samba
Samba Music
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Summary:This article explores a music production setting centred in a relatively privileged neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro known as the 'South Zone', where the author conducted participant-observation field research and interviews during 1998-9 and in 2007. It focuses on the meanings and uses of specific metaphors about cultural mixture and mediation associated with modernist discourses of Brazilian national identity first formulated in the 1920s and 30s, but persistently evoked today to describe Brazilian music-making. It proposes to explain this persistence by reading practices of, and discourses about, musical mixture as 'allegorising' the ways in which middle class subjects experience modernity in this setting. It further considers how these dynamics inform the career and music of Fernanda Abreu, known for mixing funk, disco and samba styles, and a number of her collaborators in this music production network.
ISSN:1741-1912
1741-1920
DOI:10.1080/17411910802283983