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Voices of Drought : The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil /

In Voices of Drought, Michael B. Silvers proposes a scholarship focused on environmental justice to understand key questions in the study of music and the environment. His ecomusicological perspective offers a fascinating approach to events in Ceará, a northeastern Brazilian state affected by devas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Silvers, Michael B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Hills, dales, and the Jaguaribe Valley : Carnauba wax at the dawn of recorded sound
  • "Help your brother" : drought songs as protest
  • The secret of the Sertanejo : Listening to forrâo, hearing drought
  • Sounding the real backlands : Raimundo Fagner and the soundscape of Orâos
  • Real or plastic forrâo : Soundscapes of a changing economy
  • Forrâo, or bread and circuses : Carnival in times of drought
  • Conclusion.