Contemporary Carioca

Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5771304
AutoresFrederick Moehn (0000-0001-7646-7924, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Páginas320
Fecha de publicación2012-04-23
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaContemporary Carioca (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822394884
OpenAlexW4243451302
Open LibraryOL29657600M
ISBN9780822394884
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

O Globo in January 1998, the journalist Mário Marques identified a loosely collaborative group of musicians based primarily in what is known as the South Zone of the city who were making what he called música popular carioca, or mpc.The designation riffed on the older marketing label música popular brasileirampb-associated especially with major figures of urban Brazilian popular song from the mid-1960s through the 1970s."Carioca" refers to someone or something from Rio de Janeiro and carries a host of established connotations.In coining the term, Marques thus indicated a connection with the mainstream history of urban popular song in Brazil while drawing attention to the importance of the local setting in the new trends he was describing.mpc musicians such as Pedro Luís, the group Farofa Carioca (whose lead singer, Seu Jorge, would go on to international stardom as a solo artist), and Celso Fonseca, Marques wrote, shared

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