Brasilhana: the making of a transcultural musical sign

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Main Author: Maria Elizabeth Lucas
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Sociedad de Etnomusicología 2004
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contents Brasilhana: the making of a transcultural musical sign Maria Elizabeth Lucas Arte This paper deals with a specific case of music regionalism within the multiplecontemporary idioms of Brazilian popular music. The song repertoire known asGaucho/nativist music of Rio Grande do Sul State, which has been produced in thestream of a revivalist movement in southern Brazil born in the 1970s, will serve as adoorway into the theme of transcultural processes in music. Departing from amusico-biographic analysis of a nativist song entitled Brasilhana (Brazilian +Castillian), the text brings forward the following points: a) the contextual character ofmusic signs used as national/regional identity markers; b) the agency of musiccreators (defined as strategies deployed to control the use of musical capital in agiven context) in social identity construction as well as, in this specific case, intranscultural processes; c) the problem of essentialism in music classificatorysystems, especially in relation to questions of tradition, authenticity. 2004 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82200805 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.8
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spellingShingle Brasilhana: the making of a transcultural musical sign
Maria Elizabeth Lucas
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Brasilhana: the making of a transcultural musical sign Maria Elizabeth Lucas Arte This paper deals with a specific case of music regionalism within the multiplecontemporary idioms of Brazilian popular music. The song repertoire known asGaucho/nativist music of Rio Grande do Sul State, which has been produced in thestream of a revivalist movement in southern Brazil born in the 1970s, will serve as adoorway into the theme of transcultural processes in music. Departing from amusico-biographic analysis of a nativist song entitled Brasilhana (Brazilian +Castillian), the text brings forward the following points: a) the contextual character ofmusic signs used as national/regional identity markers; b) the agency of musiccreators (defined as strategies deployed to control the use of musical capital in agiven context) in social identity construction as well as, in this specific case, intranscultural processes; c) the problem of essentialism in music classificatorysystems, especially in relation to questions of tradition, authenticity. 2004 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82200805 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.8
title Brasilhana: the making of a transcultural musical sign
topic Arte
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