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Opera in the Tropics
Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s. Author Rogério Budasz delves into the practices of the actors, singers, poets, and composers who created and performed Jesuit moral plays, Spanish comedias, and Portuguese vernacular operas and entremezes during the colonial period, as well as the Italian operas that celebrated the new independent nation in 1822. A Brazilian producer claimed in 1825 that the goal of music-theater was to instruct, entertain, and distract the population. Budasz argues that this threefold goal had in fact been present throughout the colonial period, in different combinations and with different...
Music and Cosmopolitanism
In Music and Cosmopolitanism, Cristina Magaldi examines music making in a past globalized world. This volume focuses on one city, Rio de Janeiro, and how it became part of a larger world through music and performance. Magaldi describes a process of creating connections beyond national borders, one that is familiar to contemporary city residents, but which was already dominant at the turn of the 20th century, as new technological developments led to alternative ways of making and experiencing music.
A Respectable Spell
A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English-speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth century origins to its emergence as a distinctive genre in the 1930s. Merging storytelling with theory, Carlos Sandroni profiles performers, composers, and others while analyzing the complex ideologies their music can communicate in their lyrics and rhythms, and how the meaning of songs and musical genres can vary depending on social and historical context. He also delves into lundu, modinha, maxixe, and many other genres of Brazilian music; presents the little-heard voices and perspectives of marginalized Brazilians like the African-descended sambistas; and presents a study in step with the types of decolonial approaches to ethnomusicology that have since emerged, treating the people being studied not only as makers of music but also of knowledge. Incisive and comprehensive, A Respectable Spell tells the compelling story of an iconic Brazilian musical genre.
Making Samba
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had helped to make it synonymous with Brazilian national music. The success of "Pelo telephone" embroiled Donga in controversy. A group of musicians claimed that he had stolen their work, and a prominent journalist accused him of selling out his people in pursuit of profit and fame. Within this single episode are many of the concerns that animate Making Samba, including intellectual property claims, the Brazilian state, popular music, race, gender, national identity, and the history of Afro-Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro. By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories of samba and of Brazilian national culture.
Já raiou a Liberdade
A vida de Dom Pedro I ganha uma nova abordagem em livro sobre a trajetória musical do Imperador, autor do Hino da Independência. Músico talentoso, praticante de diversos instrumentos musicais, compositor, raras são as referências às atividades musicais de D. Pedro I. Esta publicação é fruto de quatro anos de pesquisas sobre o músico D. Pedro I em bibliotecas do Brasil, Portugal, França e Áustria. A autora, a musicista Rosana Lanzelotte, também partiu do resgate das obras musicais do Imperador para elucidar outros aspectos pouco explorados de sua biografia, como o viés constitucionalista. Em um tempo em que o absolutismo predominava e vivendo em uma família igualmente absolutis...
Uma Pequena Clarificação à História do Brasil
Através de elementos fidedignos que se apresentam, assim se demonstram todas as inverdades que A.M.V. de Drummond proferiu nas suas "Anotações(...)", cuja 1a edição data de 1836 (a última é de 2012), sobre João da Rocha Pinto, áulico do Imperador do Brasil, Dom Pedro, e veador de sua esposa, Dona Leopoldina, bem como de outras personagens relevantes do tempo, o qual injustamente manipulou e modificou o seu caráter impoluto, bem como dos homens que ajudaram D. Pedro a se afirmar no trono brasileiro, cujas mentirosas insinuações proclamadas foram absorvidas e divulgadas por grande número de historiadores brasileiros e portugueses, criando assim o tão conhecido e nefasto "efeito dominó". Serve este trabalho para lhes dar a justiça merecida.
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Formação da nação brasileira
Afinal, somos uma nação? Somos, ao menos, um povo só, a despeito das diferenças reais e imaginárias que levantam fronteiras entre os brasileiros? Ou a distância entre descendentes de indígenas, africanos e europeus é tão grande que não passamos de uma junção heterogênea? Nesse caso, formamos uma nação, mesmo que heterogênea? Neste livro, o historiador e professor da USP João Paulo Pimenta demonstra as bases da nacionalidade brasileira, trabalhando com fontes do século XIX. Debruça-se sobre processos históricos, fatos e escritos, revoltas superestimadas e posições desconsideradas, criando um painel rico, complexo, multicolorido, que vai contar ainda com ondas de imigrantes oriundos de variadas culturas e tradições. Ler esta obra é caminhar com segurança para entender melhor quem somos, tendo como base uma resposta histórica para "como nos formamos?". Para quem quer tentar entender o Brasil.
