Brazil in France, 1922

An Anthropological Study of the Congenital International Nexus of Popular Music

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ID3979855
AuthorsRafael José De Menezes Bastos (0000-0002-1788-6050, corresponding author), Rafael José De Menezes Bastos Rafael José De Menezes Bastos
Year2008
Volume29
Issue1
Pages1-28
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Music Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-0350 • E-ISSN: 1536-0199
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lat.0.0003
OpenAlexW1603554144
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

In 1922, the famous musical ensemble from Rio de Janeiro, Os Batutas, spent six months in Paris, playing in night clubs and parties. The group was under the direction of Pixinguinha and included Donga, composer of “Pelo Telefone’s” music. The trip is a little-known episode in the history of Brazilian popular music, with important consequences for Pixinguinha’s career and the future of Brazilian popular music. The article is an anthropological study, approaching it as the departure phase toward Pixinguinha’s consecration. Theoretically, the article is based on the author’s formulations regarding the understanding of popular music as a crucial language of the system of relationships of modern nation-states, with articulated local, regional, national, and global nexuses. Here art, folk, and popular music are considered as universes in communication and sound recording (“ phonography ”) as a constitutive process. The reconstruction of the journey is made through the reading of French newspaper and other texts of the time

Art · Art history · Classical music · Consecration · Folk music · Literature · Media studies · Musical · Newspaper · Political science · Popular music · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Sociology and Education in Brazil

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