
Music and Cosmopolitanism
Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the 20th Century
Cristina Magaldi(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 26. September 2024
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-0-19-974477-0 (ISBN)
Description
Music and Cosmopolitanism is a musical portrait of a city-Rio de Janeiro. Award-winning author Cristina Magaldi takes readers on an auditory tour through the city's early post-Imperial years, a period of crucial transition, as she surveys the city's variegated 'soundscape.' With visits to opera theaters and dance halls, and from symphony concerts to the cabaret, music halls, and the street, Magaldi moves through a gamut of musical expressions in Rio de Janeiro during these critical years of change. Her investigations demonstrate that the city's musical practices were articulated within a cosmopolitan context shared by residents in cities in the Americas and Europe, as she examines the musical and cultural interactions that resulted from early processes of urbanization, globalization, and the circulation of technology and information into and out of the Brazilian capital. While Rio de Janeiro's particular geography, urban spaces, and specific social and ethnic interactions all played roles in characterizing unique local musical practices, Music and Cosmopolitanism focuses on how these practices were linked to and fueled by the circulation of music on the international stage.
To understand music and performance as part of a larger system of human connections and disconnections that are always in motion, this book offers a story of musical Rio de Janeiro that was built as much as, or perhaps more so, from the outside in than from within its socio-historical and cultural contexts - a city that grew to become one place containing many worlds.
To understand music and performance as part of a larger system of human connections and disconnections that are always in motion, this book offers a story of musical Rio de Janeiro that was built as much as, or perhaps more so, from the outside in than from within its socio-historical and cultural contexts - a city that grew to become one place containing many worlds.
Reviews / Votes
"In her lively and absorbing study of musical life in fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro, Cristina Magaldi reveals how, in the creation, performance and consumption of music, people were able to explore and appraise social and cultural ties with others, both local and distant. By adopting a cosmopolitan perspective on city experience, cultural transfer, and early modernity, she deepens our understanding of music history in global rather than narrowly national terms." * Derek B. Scott, author of Sounds of the Metropolis and co-editor of Confronting the National in the Musical Past * "An impressive panorama of the transnational and transcultural experiences that shaped the urban soundscape of Rio de Janeiro in the aftermath of monarchy and slavery. In a series of engaging case studies, Magaldi follows artists, communities, businesses, and specific musical works to make sense of the complex net of meanings that permeated the fragmented visions of modernity that emerged in this cosmopolitan city in the tropics." * Rogerio Budasz, Professor of Music, University of California--Riverside *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
37 b&w halftones
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-974477-0 (9780199744770)
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Cristina Magaldi is Professor Emerita at Towson University and holds degrees from the University of Brasilia, the University of Reading, England, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on music during the 19th and 20th centuries, Latin American cultures, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. She is the author of Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu (2004) and her publications have appeared in Popular Music, Latin American Music Review, Musical Quarterly, among others.
Content
Introduction
Chapter One: Cosmopolitanism and yhe City
Chapter Two: A City To Be Seen and To Be Heard
Chapter Three: A Tale of Three Anthems
Chapter Four: Race in the Universal and Eternal Tradition
Chapter Five: At The Cabaret
Chapter Six: Diversifying
Chapter Seven: Local Cosmopolitanisms
Chapter Eight: The Widows
Chapter Nine: Cosmopolitan Traditions
Chapter Ten: Sounds Of Urban Worlds
Chapter Eleven: A World of Many Musics
12. Concluding: Arriving at the Future
Bibliography
Index
Chapter One: Cosmopolitanism and yhe City
Chapter Two: A City To Be Seen and To Be Heard
Chapter Three: A Tale of Three Anthems
Chapter Four: Race in the Universal and Eternal Tradition
Chapter Five: At The Cabaret
Chapter Six: Diversifying
Chapter Seven: Local Cosmopolitanisms
Chapter Eight: The Widows
Chapter Nine: Cosmopolitan Traditions
Chapter Ten: Sounds Of Urban Worlds
Chapter Eleven: A World of Many Musics
12. Concluding: Arriving at the Future
Bibliography
Index