Full Description
"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann chronicles the flourishing of Brazilian popular music between the 1920s and the 1950s. Through analysis of the competing projects of composers, producers, bureaucrats, and fans, he shows that Brazilians alternately envisioned popular music as the foundation for a unified national culture and used it as a tool to probe racial and regional divisions.McCann explores the links between the growth of the culture industry, rapid industrialization, and the rise and fall of Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo dictatorship. He argues that these processes opened a window of opportunity for the creation of enduring cultural patterns and demonstrates that the understandings of popular music cemented in the mid-twentieth century continue to structure Brazilian cultural life in the early twenty-first.
Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction 1
1. Radio and Estado Novo 19
2. Samba and National Identity
41
3. The Rise of Northeastern Regionalism 96
4. American Seduction
129
5. Inventing the Old Guard of Brazilian Popular Music 160
6. Fan Clubs and Auditoriam Programs
181
7. Advertising and Audience Fragmentation 215
Conclusion 235
Notes
Notes
247
Bibliography 281
Index 291
