Música Popular Black and anti-racist struggles: musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in Brazil (1963-1978)
This essay reassesses the political significance of the creative impulses, performance aesthetics and artistic work that became identified collectively as música popular black, and their contribution to the anti-racist cause in Brazil during the 1964-85 dictatorship. It reevaluates how the state or...
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| description | This essay reassesses the political significance of the creative impulses, performance aesthetics and artistic work that became identified collectively as música popular black, and their contribution to the anti-racist cause in Brazil during the 1964-85 dictatorship. It reevaluates how the state orthodoxy of racial nationalism and denialism was challenged, not merely in the adoption of the soul aesthetic as a marker of diasporic identification with US blackness, but in the cumulative emergence of an autonomous anti-racist consciousness and voice for Afro-Brazilians within their own musical and social world. This was expressed, not only in a body of powerfully explicit anti-racist statements but also in a creolized, cosmopolitan idiom of vocal and performative style that connected local artists and the Black Rio dance scene, and that contributed to the building of a Black public sphere, leaving a potent legacy for the musical and political movements of the 1980s, 1990s and beyond. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dae06fb6661b492d8551a91a4dcc476f2022-12-22T02:39:08ZengAarhus UniversityBrasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies2245-43732022-02-0110210.25160/bjbs.v10i2.128090121278Música Popular Black and anti-racist struggles: musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in Brazil (1963-1978)David Treece0King's College LondonThis essay reassesses the political significance of the creative impulses, performance aesthetics and artistic work that became identified collectively as música popular black, and their contribution to the anti-racist cause in Brazil during the 1964-85 dictatorship. It reevaluates how the state orthodoxy of racial nationalism and denialism was challenged, not merely in the adoption of the soul aesthetic as a marker of diasporic identification with US blackness, but in the cumulative emergence of an autonomous anti-racist consciousness and voice for Afro-Brazilians within their own musical and social world. This was expressed, not only in a body of powerfully explicit anti-racist statements but also in a creolized, cosmopolitan idiom of vocal and performative style that connected local artists and the Black Rio dance scene, and that contributed to the building of a Black public sphere, leaving a potent legacy for the musical and political movements of the 1980s, 1990s and beyond.https://tidsskrift.dk/bras/article/view/128090brazilsoulblackanti-racismmusiccreolizationrio de janeirojazzr&bsamba |
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| title | Música Popular Black and anti-racist struggles: musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in Brazil (1963-1978) |
| title_full | Música Popular Black and anti-racist struggles: musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in Brazil (1963-1978) |
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| title_short | Música Popular Black and anti-racist struggles: musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in Brazil (1963-1978) |
| title_sort | musica popular black and anti racist struggles musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in brazil 1963 1978 |
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