Bryan Mccann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 408922 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bryan Mccann |
| NOMBRES | Bryan |
| APELLIDO | Mccann |
| FIRMA | MCCANN B |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7304-0452 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Rio de Janeiro
What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in turn, mining their depths and drawing connections bet…
Jennifer Adair. In Search of the Lost Decade
Journal Article Jennifer Adair. In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina.Natalia Milanesio. Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina. Get access Jennifer Adair. In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp xiii, 188. Paper $34.95. Natalia Milanesio. Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictator…
Rocinha
Resenha: COSTA, Mariana Barbosa Carvalho. A Rocinha em construção: a história social de uma favela na primeira metade do século XX. Casa Editorial: Rio de Janeiro, 2022. 273 p., mapas, fotografias
The Map, the Photograph and the BRT
Rio de Janeiro's Bus Rapid Transit system, implemented in the years before the 2016 Summer Olympics, reproduces and expands inequalities long associated with the city's traditional bus system. This article explores the middle ground between structure and subjectivity in order to reveal these patterns. To begin, it contrasts the BRT system's schematic map with the photography of Yan Carpenter and the analytical maps of Lucas Faulhaber. It then mov…
Contracultura
As Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship tightened the screws in the late 1960s, popular musicians, visual artists, and authors on the left produced an outpouring of vital work. This cultural production challenged and provoked the military government but also offered penetrating criticism of flaws and failures within the Left, or the multiple Lefts. Scholars have analyzed this rich, complex cultural production created under the shadow of dict…
Securing Sex
Securing Sex is a major contribution to our understanding of the Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964 to 1985, using balanced, rigorous interdisciplinary methodology to offer new perspectives on a dark period in Brazilian history. The book explores the evolution and adaptation of a highly flexible and sometimes inchoate political right wing to cultural change, and the subsequent articulation of understandings of sexuality, decency, and citizen…
Parque Madureira
Nearly all the major urban planning initiatives associated with the ongoing transformation of Rio de Janeiro, such as the renovation of the port district, the creation of the Olympic village, and the opening of cross-municipal bus-rapid-transit lines, have been greeted by protests and criticism from architects and urban planners. One project, the Parque Madureira, a new green corridor in the city’s North Zone, has received great acclaim by Brazil…
Seven Cold Cities
This article analyzes popular composer Vitor Ramil's work in the musical genre of milonga. The article argues that the structural syncopation of the rhythmic cell in milonga brings leveza, or lightness, to the music, one of the qualities Ramil identifies as guiding principles in his "aesthetics of cold." The article places Ramil's exploration of milonga in the context of his long, varied and continuously evolving career
Cities From Scratch
Introduction / Brodwyn Fischer 1 1. A Century in the Present Tense: Crisis,Politics, and the Intellectual History of Brazil's Informal Cities / Brodwyn Fischer 9 2. In and Out of the Margins: Urban Land Seizures and Homeownership in Santiago, Chile / Edward Murphy 68 3. Troubled Oasis: The Intertwining Histories of the Morro dos Cabritos and Bairro Peixoto / Bryan McCann 102 4. Compadres, Vecinos, and Broderes in the Barrio: Kinship, Politics, an…
Culture of Class
This innovative book builds on and goes beyond recent scholarship on the rise of mass culture in Latin America. Matthew Karush offers a thorough yet nimble investigation of both the cinematic, popular musical, and theatrical products of Argentina’s emerging culture industry and the heated critical debates about the nature and effects of these products. He follows interweaving cultural and political trajectories from the birth of Argentine radio t…
Affect, Black Rage, and False Alternatives in the Hip-Hop Nation
This essay looks to the work of iconic rap artist Tupac Shakur to illuminate the role of Black rage as a common denominator between rap's most conscious and gangsta iterations. Specifically, by theorizing Black rage as the founding affective impulse of the hip-hop nation, critics can identify common affective threads across the genre and spy emancipatory potential in hip-hop's most jarring excesses, as surely as its more lucidly political iterati…
A View from the Corner Bar
This article explores the nature and influence of the satirical journalism of Sérgio Porto, alias Stanislaw Ponte Preta, in Brazil from 1964 to 1968. Porto's daily column in the Última Hora newspaper lampooned the Brazilian military dictatorship for its corruption, self-satisfaction, and ignorance and denounced its violence. At the same time, Porto carefully distanced himself from the radical left, appealing to a moderate popular audience. This s…
Doing the Bossa Nova
Este artigo investiga a criação de um estilo de dança em pares, baseado no gênero musical brasileiro Bossa Nova, que virou moda nos Estados Unidos dos anos 1960. A dança foi pensada como um novo Twist e vista como fonte de lucro para a indústria fonográfica. Tal qual a maioria das danças que estavam na moda na época, a "Bossa Nova" também foi sucesso em outros países e houve críticas à comercialização do gênero musical. A autora argumenta que sua…
"Tension and "Tradition
O berimbau de barriga é um arco musical da descendência Africano conhecido como um componente inseparável da capoeira. Durante o século vinte, o berimbau mudou lugares de um instrumento que estava obscuro e ameaçado com extinção, e chegou a ser um instrumento verdadeiramente nacional brasileiro. Este artigo considera a emergência recente do berimbau através do trabalho dos três músicos: Naná Vasconcelos, Dinho Nascimento, e Ramiro Musotto. Um com…
Benedicto Lacerda and the Golden Age of Choro
Este artigo investiga um dos períodos mais férteis do choro—a chamada Época de Ouro, entre os anos ’20 e os anos ’40—e a obra e carreira de um do músicos mais conhecidos dessa época, o flautista Benedicto Lacerda (1903–1958). Lacerda era conhecido tanto pelo seu trabalho como líder de conjuntos musicais e por seu ativismo como representante da classe de músicos profissionais quanto por seu virtuosismo no seu instrumento. Não era apenas um produto…
Bridging Disciplinary Divides in the Study of Brazilian Instrumental Music
Academic and popular investigation of Brazilian popular music has burgeoned in recent years. In keeping with trends of cultural and political pluralization throughout Brazil, recent scholarship has expanded dramatically in its range-from the sacred music of umbanda rituals in Porto Alegre to the history of Paraense pop, Brazilian music is under investigation. Although most recent work is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on methodologies and …
Choro do Norte
Este artigo traça a longa história do choro nos Estados Unidos. Depois de analisar os primeiros momentos do choro nos EUA—o maxixe craze dos 1910s, a colaboração entre Benny Goodman, Carmen Miranda e o Bando da Lua no filme The Gang’s All Here em 1943 e shows de choro dados em Nova Iorque em 1940 e 1982—o artigo focaliza a sua atenção no período que começou no meio dos anos noventa, quando choro começou ser tocado com muito mais freqüência, e as …
A bossa nova e a influência do blues, 1955-1964
Este artigo considera as conexões entre blues e bossa nova, pouco reconhecidas na literatura sobre bossa nova mas muito importantes para o desenvolvimento do estilo. Analisando as gravações do circuito samba-jazz em Copacabana nas décadas de 1950 e 1960, o artigo traz à luz uma prática de blues, tanto na estrutura de doze compassos como na utilização da escala blues como matéria de improviso, bastante comum naquela época. O artigo explica o papel…
The throes of democracy
In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on an experiment in full democracy for the first time in the nation's history. Since then, Brazilians have sought to live up to the ideals of this experiment while negotiating dramatic economic and cultural transformations. In The Throes of Democracy Bryan McCann gives a panoramic view of this process, exploring the relationships between the rise of the political …
Vargas and Brazil
Brazil’s Vargas period, beginning with Getúlio Vargas’s rise to power in 1930 and ending with his suicide in office in 1954 (spanning the interregnum of 1946 – 50, when he was out of presidential office), has long been recognized as Brazil’s tortured passage to modernity. Urbanization, industrialization, centralization of power, and nationalist cultural projects transformed Brazil on Getúlio’s watch and to varying degrees following his direction.…
The Political Evolution of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
The Political Evolution of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas Recent Works Reviewed by Bryan McCann Georgetown University A Favela Fala. Edited by Dulce Chaves Pandolfi and Mário Grynszpan. (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2003. Pp. 364.) Integração Perversa: Pobreza E Tráfico De Drogas. By Alba Zaluar. (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2004. Pp. 440.) Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman. By Robert Gay. (P…
Strong Roots. Directed by Maria Luisa Mendonça. New York
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The City of Musical Memory
The musical genre known as salsa emerged from the experimentations of Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians in East Harlem in the late 1960s and thus could plausibly be said to have its home in New York, or at more of a stretch, in San Juan or Havana. Yet by the early 1980s, residents of Cali, Colombia, were referring to their city as the World Capital of Salsa. They did so in full awareness that they had not invented the genre and that Caleño musicia…
Cuban Fire
The Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon of the late 1990s—which rescued from obscurity a group of aged Cuban musicians and brought them to Carnegie Hall and beyond in the company of a globetrotting North American guitarist and a German filmmaker with a romantic fondness for Old Havana—provoked two competing reactions among lovers of Cuban music. On the one hand, it generated a keen hope that Buena Vista’s rising tide would lift the boats of other …
Carlos Lacerda
President Getúlio Vargas’s suicide on August 24, 1954, has long been recognized as the pivotal moment of Brazil’s Populist Republic—the tumultuous two decades between the fall of the Estado Novo dictatorship in 1945 and the military coup in 1964. His suicide—clearly as much grand political gesture as personal tragedy—passed almost immediately from current event to popular myth, interpreted in various ways according to fundamentally opposed vision…
Affect, Black Rage, and False Alternatives in the Hip-Hop Nation
This essay looks to the work of iconic rap artist Tupac Shakur to illuminate the role of Black rage as a common denominator between rap's most conscious and gangsta iterations. Specifically, by theorizing Black rage as the founding affective impulse of the hip-hop nation, critics can identify common affective threads across the genre and spy emancipatory potential in hip-hop's most jarring excesses, as surely as its more lucidly political iterati…
The Mystery of Samba
This fascinating and elegant study of transformations in attitudes about race, popular culture, and national identity in Brazil suffers from a misleading title. It is not a book about samba, and to the degree that it is a mystery story it is unsatisfying, for it fails to offer a convincing explanation of the mystery to which the title refers (how samba evolved from a marginal genre of a few predominantly black neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro into…
Carlos Lacerda
President Getúlio Vargas’s suicide on August 24, 1954, has long been recognized as the pivotal moment of Brazil’s Populist Republic—the tumultuous two decades between the fall of the Estado Novo dictatorship in 1945 and the military coup in 1964. His suicide—clearly as much grand political gesture as personal tragedy—passed almost immediately from current event to popular myth, interpreted in various ways according to fundamentally opposed vision…
Choro do Norte
Este artigo traça a longa história do choro nos Estados Unidos. Depois de analisar os primeiros momentos do choro nos EUA—o maxixe craze dos 1910s, a colaboração entre Benny Goodman, Carmen Miranda e o Bando da Lua no filme The Gang’s All Here em 1943 e shows de choro dados em Nova Iorque em 1940 e 1982—o artigo focaliza a sua atenção no período que começou no meio dos anos noventa, quando choro começou ser tocado com muito mais freqüência, e as …
Net delay of next conception by contraception
A probability model, building on the work of Perrin and Sheps, is presented and applied. The model makes it possible to follow a cohort of women from a pregnancy outcome to next conception. Principal simplifying assumptions are homogeneity among women and constant fecundity. Cases treated include no contraception; a single contraceptive method practised; and a second contraceptive method practised following a first one. Expected durations to next…
Net delay of next conception by contraception
A probability model, building on the work of Perrin and Sheps, is presented and applied. The model makes it possible to follow a cohort of women from a pregnancy outcome to next conception. Principal simplifying assumptions are homogeneity among women and constant fecundity. Cases treated include no contraception; a single contraceptive method practised; and a second contraceptive method practised following a first one. Expected durations to next…
Cinematograph of Words
The Mystery of Samba
This fascinating and elegant study of transformations in attitudes about race, popular culture, and national identity in Brazil suffers from a misleading title. It is not a book about samba, and to the degree that it is a mystery story it is unsatisfying, for it fails to offer a convincing explanation of the mystery to which the title refers (how samba evolved from a marginal genre of a few predominantly black neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro into…
The South and the Caribbean
The South and the Caribbean. Edited by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez and Charles Reagan Wilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. xii, 208. $35.00.) More so than by geographical proximity, the U.S. South and the Caribbean are linked by the legacies of plantation slavery-by the complex codes of racism reinforcing hierarchical and exclusive societies on the one hand, and by extraordinarily rich African-American cultures on the other…
Guerra Sem Guerra
It is a curiosity of Brazilian popular memory that among residents of São Paulo, the Constitutionalist Revolt of 1932 –in which Paulistano rebels took a drubbing from Getúlio Vargas's federal government, sacrificing all their objectives in a quick surrender– has a cherished place in local lore, while World War II, in contrast, is remembered as someone else's fight, despite the fact that thousands of Brazilian soldiers, many of them Paulistanos, f…
Black Pau
Black Pau
Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle
Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies. At the same time, they suggest how much the struggle itself shaped important trends in American culture and mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. Bringing together a range of voices seldom heard together, this book challenge…
Culture Wars in Brazil
Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization
The editors of this exciting volume recognize a long-standing Brazilian tension between incorporation of foreign musical influence and anxiety over national musical heritage and explore the place of this tension in recent popular music. How have Brazilian musicians negotiated globalization and emerged with creative responses that speak deeply about local concerns? How do consumers of popular music perceive processes of globalization, and how do t…
Radio Nation
The convergence of emerging broadcasting industries and centralizing states in the 1930s–50s had enormous consequences for the industrializing nations of Latin America. In Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, in particular, the rise of radio appeared to go hand in hand with a newly powerful federal bureaucracy’s desire to mold the political, economic and cultural nation. Radio’s significance is axiomatic and oft-mentioned, but rarely studied in depth. …
Cuban Fire
The Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon of the late 1990s—which rescued from obscurity a group of aged Cuban musicians and brought them to Carnegie Hall and beyond in the company of a globetrotting North American guitarist and a German filmmaker with a romantic fondness for Old Havana—provoked two competing reactions among lovers of Cuban music. On the one hand, it generated a keen hope that Buena Vista’s rising tide would lift the boats of other …
Carlos Lacerda
President Getúlio Vargas’s suicide on August 24, 1954, has long been recognized as the pivotal moment of Brazil’s Populist Republic—the tumultuous two decades between the fall of the Estado Novo dictatorship in 1945 and the military coup in 1964. His suicide—clearly as much grand political gesture as personal tragedy—passed almost immediately from current event to popular myth, interpreted in various ways according to fundamentally opposed vision…
Strong Roots. Directed by Maria Luisa Mendonça. New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The City of Musical Memory
The musical genre known as salsa emerged from the experimentations of Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians in East Harlem in the late 1960s and thus could plausibly be said to have its home in New York, or at more of a stretch, in San Juan or Havana. Yet by the early 1980s, residents of Cali, Colombia, were referring to their city as the World Capital of Salsa. They did so in full awareness that they had not invented the genre and that Caleño musicia…
The Political Evolution of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
The Political Evolution of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas Recent Works Reviewed by Bryan McCann Georgetown University A Favela Fala. Edited by Dulce Chaves Pandolfi and Mário Grynszpan. (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2003. Pp. 364.) Integração Perversa: Pobreza E Tráfico De Drogas. By Alba Zaluar. (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2004. Pp. 440.) Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman. By Robert Gay. (P…
The throes of democracy
In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on an experiment in full democracy for the first time in the nation's history. Since then, Brazilians have sought to live up to the ideals of this experiment while negotiating dramatic economic and cultural transformations. In The Throes of Democracy Bryan McCann gives a panoramic view of this process, exploring the relationships between the rise of the political …
Vargas and Brazil
Brazil’s Vargas period, beginning with Getúlio Vargas’s rise to power in 1930 and ending with his suicide in office in 1954 (spanning the interregnum of 1946 – 50, when he was out of presidential office), has long been recognized as Brazil’s tortured passage to modernity. Urbanization, industrialization, centralization of power, and nationalist cultural projects transformed Brazil on Getúlio’s watch and to varying degrees following his direction.…
A bossa nova e a influência do blues, 1955-1964
Este artigo considera as conexões entre blues e bossa nova, pouco reconhecidas na literatura sobre bossa nova mas muito importantes para o desenvolvimento do estilo. Analisando as gravações do circuito samba-jazz em Copacabana nas décadas de 1950 e 1960, o artigo traz à luz uma prática de blues, tanto na estrutura de doze compassos como na utilização da escala blues como matéria de improviso, bastante comum naquela época. O artigo explica o papel…
Doing the Bossa Nova
Este artigo investiga a criação de um estilo de dança em pares, baseado no gênero musical brasileiro Bossa Nova, que virou moda nos Estados Unidos dos anos 1960. A dança foi pensada como um novo Twist e vista como fonte de lucro para a indústria fonográfica. Tal qual a maioria das danças que estavam na moda na época, a "Bossa Nova" também foi sucesso em outros países e houve críticas à comercialização do gênero musical. A autora argumenta que sua…
"Tension and "Tradition
O berimbau de barriga é um arco musical da descendência Africano conhecido como um componente inseparável da capoeira. Durante o século vinte, o berimbau mudou lugares de um instrumento que estava obscuro e ameaçado com extinção, e chegou a ser um instrumento verdadeiramente nacional brasileiro. Este artigo considera a emergência recente do berimbau através do trabalho dos três músicos: Naná Vasconcelos, Dinho Nascimento, e Ramiro Musotto. Um com…
Benedicto Lacerda and the Golden Age of Choro
Este artigo investiga um dos períodos mais férteis do choro—a chamada Época de Ouro, entre os anos ’20 e os anos ’40—e a obra e carreira de um do músicos mais conhecidos dessa época, o flautista Benedicto Lacerda (1903–1958). Lacerda era conhecido tanto pelo seu trabalho como líder de conjuntos musicais e por seu ativismo como representante da classe de músicos profissionais quanto por seu virtuosismo no seu instrumento. Não era apenas um produto…
Bridging Disciplinary Divides in the Study of Brazilian Instrumental Music
Academic and popular investigation of Brazilian popular music has burgeoned in recent years. In keeping with trends of cultural and political pluralization throughout Brazil, recent scholarship has expanded dramatically in its range-from the sacred music of umbanda rituals in Porto Alegre to the history of Paraense pop, Brazilian music is under investigation. Although most recent work is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on methodologies and …
Choro do Norte
Este artigo traça a longa história do choro nos Estados Unidos. Depois de analisar os primeiros momentos do choro nos EUA—o maxixe craze dos 1910s, a colaboração entre Benny Goodman, Carmen Miranda e o Bando da Lua no filme The Gang’s All Here em 1943 e shows de choro dados em Nova Iorque em 1940 e 1982—o artigo focaliza a sua atenção no período que começou no meio dos anos noventa, quando choro começou ser tocado com muito mais freqüência, e as …
A View from the Corner Bar
This article explores the nature and influence of the satirical journalism of Sérgio Porto, alias Stanislaw Ponte Preta, in Brazil from 1964 to 1968. Porto's daily column in the Última Hora newspaper lampooned the Brazilian military dictatorship for its corruption, self-satisfaction, and ignorance and denounced its violence. At the same time, Porto carefully distanced himself from the radical left, appealing to a moderate popular audience. This s…
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