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"Record it, and let it be known" : song lyrics, gender and ethnicity in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago from 1920 to 1960 / Christopher F. Laferl.

Title: "Record it, and let it be known" : song lyrics, gender and ethnicity in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago from 1920 to 1960 / Christopher F. Laferl.
Author: Laferl, Christopher F.
Publication: Wien : LIT, c2005.

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380 p.; 24 cm +

Summary

"On the basis of a corpus made up of over one thousand songs recorded between 1920 and 1960 in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago, Record it, and let it be known offers a textual analysis of the ways in which these countries' main musical genres staged the encounters of the identity categories of ethnicity and gender in song lyrics during the decades preceding the emergence of more ideologically conscious musical currents. Special attention is paid to the following topics: the relations between ethnicity and national identity; the presence of Africa and slavery; the presentation of the gendered and ethnically marked body; and, finally, the description of cultural blackness."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Literatur Forschung und Wissenschaft ; Bd. 6

Uniform Title

Literatur (Lit (Firm)) Bd. 6.

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Genre/Form

Compact discs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Note

Contents of compact disc listed on p. 380.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical and discographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Demography -- Ethnicity, society, and politics -- Ethnicity and culture -- Popular music, ethnicity, gender, and commercialization -- corpus -- Pt. I. Structure, topics, genres -- Preliminary remarks -- Text and music -- Song lyrics and poetry -- Song lyrics and meaning -- enunciative structure of song lyrics -- "I" and "you" -- gender -- No gendering -- Direct gendering in the text -- Indirect gendering by context -- "I" and "you" -- ethnicity -- Direct marking of ethnicity -- Indirect marking of ethnicity -- "I" and "you" -- gender and ethnicity -- Main topics -- Main genres -- Samba -- Marcha -- Bolero and Samba-Cancao -- Son -- Beguine -- Calypso -- the exception -- Pt. II. Ethnicity, gender, nationhood -- Ethnicity and history : past and present -- Africa -- Slavery and emancipation -- Exploitation and poverty in the 20[superscript th] century -- "Adieu foulard! Adieu madras!" -- Ethnicity : "nature" -- unmarked and the single-marked body -- double-marked body -- Women -- Black women -- Mulatto women -- Brazilian Morena -- White women -- Indian women -- Asian women -- Men -- Black men -- Mulatto men -- White men -- Indian men -- East Indian men -- Exceptional interactions -- "Brown skin girl" -- Ethnicity : culture -- Music, dance, and carnival -- Afro-Latin American religions -- Food and clothing -- "Babalu" -- Ethnicity and national identity -- Defining the whole -- whole and its parts -- center and periphery -- National and foreign -- "Aquarela do Brasil"

ISBN

3825876365 (pbk.)
9783825876364 (pbk.)

OCLC

62749453
SCSB-11988208

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library