Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil - Softcover

McCann, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822332736 ISBN 13: 9780822332732

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2004

Synopsis

“Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace.  New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann chronicles the flourishing of Brazilian popular music between the 1920s and the 1950s. Through analysis of the competing projects of composers, producers, bureaucrats, and fans, he shows that Brazilians alternately envisioned popular music as the foundation for a unified national culture and used it as a tool to probe racial and regional divisions.

McCann explores the links between the growth of the culture industry, rapid industrialization, and the rise and fall of Getúlio Vargas’s Estado Novo dictatorship. He argues that these processes opened a window of opportunity for the creation of enduring cultural patterns and demonstrates that the understandings of popular music cemented in the mid–twentieth century continue to structure Brazilian cultural life in the early twenty-first.

About this title

About the Author

Bryan McCann is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Georgetown University.

From the Back Cover

"No Latin American country offers more for the study of popular culture through music than Brazil. Bryan McCann's revelation of this neglected source will delight both Brazilian and non-Brazilian readers."--Thomas Skidmore, author of "Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought"

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822332736
• ISBN 13: 9780822332732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312