Music of the Lusosonic

World
Musical traditions performed in Brasil

19 January 2018

Eduardo Roque dos Reis Falcão

• The importance of music and its interactions with other aspects of cultural
life.
• I´ll seek to provide conceptual and analytical tools for students to be able to
analyse a range of musical expressions within the Portuguese speaking
worlds.
• Introduce you to the practices and traditions that have shaped these musical
expressions and the connections between them.
How these musical soundscapes express a variety
of cultural identities in Latin America, Iberia and
the Atlantic world ?
• History • Music
• Global History Aproach • Ethnomusicologial Aproach

• Sanjay Subrahmanyam • Instruments

• Dipesh Chakrabarty • Rhythm and harmony;
“Metropolitan reversal”
A colony exercising governance
over the entirety of the empire
Bank of Brazil

Military academies

Medical Schools

Printing

Art academy

Opera House

(1841) Conservatory of Music

Rio de Janeiro
 Music traditions
• Choro
• Samba – Bossa Nova
• MPB (Popular Brazilian Music)
• Baião – Forró
• Música sertaneja (caipira)
 Bibliography
Ethnomusicology:

• Nicholas Cook, Music: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford

University Press, 2000).

• Aubert, Laurent, The Music of the Other. New Challenges for

Ethnomusicology in a Global Age. (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007)
Brasil and musical genres:

• Chris McGowan and Ricardo Pessanha, The Brazilian sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music
of Brazil (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998)

• John P. Murphy, Music in Brazil: experiencing music, expressing culture (with cd) (New York, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2006)

• C. Dunn and C. A. Perrone, (eds.), Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization(New York: Routledge,
2002)

• Peter Fryer, Rhythms of Resistance. African Musical Heritage in Brazil. (London: Pluto
Press, 2000).

• Florencia Garramuño, Primitive Modernities: Tango, Samba, and Nation (Stanford University Press,
2011).