Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship

by Adalberto Paranhos, Christopher Dunn, Flavio Oliveira

Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and citizenship in Brazil. While popular music has served as an effective resource for communities to stake claims to political, social, and cultural rights in Brazil, it has also been appropriated by the state in its efforts to manage and control a socially, racially, and geographically diverse nation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234906X
• ISBN13: 9780822349068
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"