Cross‐Cultural “Countries”: Covers, Conjuncture, and the Whiff of Nashville in<i>Música Sertaneja</i>(Brazilian Commercial Country Music)

Dent, Alexander S.

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“…In this context, Bourdieu's () concept of distinction helps us see how piracy might be threatening in particular ways in Brazil. It is clearly the case that European and North American practices and objects must be interpreted in a local context, not merely dismissed as “foreign” (Dent , ). Nonetheless, belle epoque Carioca (Rio‐based) elites believed that their European goods and practices held local value in shoring up their position in part because they came from Europe.…”

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Policing the unstable materialities of digital‐media piracy in Brazil

Dent

2016

American Ethnologist

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A B S T R A C TAround the world, antipiracy NGOs train police to recognize the unauthorized use of music and films and to publicly destroy illicit CDs and DVDs. For those who enforce laws governing intellectual property (IP), music and film piracy underscores how digital reproduction can be conceived of as forgetful, inconstant, and promiscuous. In Brazil, discourses about "cleaning" (limpeza) unite incitements to greater security, more active governance, and stricter IP enforcement. Understanding the global dynamics of IP policing requires analysis of ideologies of material purity and the historicity associated with them. This ethnography of antipiracy NGOs, law enforcement, and informal economies in southern Brazil brings together the anthropologies of mediation and IP, arguing that producers and consumers of digital texts are becoming increasingly anxious about how those texts circulate. [intellectual property, policing, piracy,

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Policing the unstable materialities of digital‐media piracy in Brazil

Dent

2016

American Ethnologist

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“…Thomas Solomon's analysis of hip hop in Istanbul focuses on local discourses of authenticity and place, which ties into "debates about popular musics in the context of globalization" (2005: 2) yet articulates a local specificity about these discourses that undermines any homogenizing tendencies of globalization. Alexander Dent (2005) uses linguistic anthropology models to analyze a Brazilian cover of the country hit "Achy Breaky Heart". What connects such disparate work is an attention to social practice and process -one that is notably explicated through ethnography.…”

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Popular music studies and the problems of sound, society and method

Bates

2013

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Building on Philip Tagg's timely intervention (2011), I investigate four things in relation to three dominant Anglophone popular music studies journals (Popular Music and Society, Popular Music, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies): 1) what interdisciplinarity or multidisciplinarity means within popular music studies, with a particular focus on the sites of research and the place of ethnographic and/or anthropological approaches; 2) the extent to which popular music studies has developed canonic scholarship, and the citation tendencies present within scholarship on both Western and non-Western popular musics; 3) the motivations for two scholarly groups, Dancecult and ASARP, to breakaway from popular music studies; 4) the forms of music analysis and the kinds of musical material commonly employed within popular music studies. I suggest that the field would greatly benefit from a true engagement with anthropological theories and methods, and that the "chaotic conceptualization" of musical structuration and the critical discourse would likewise benefit from an attention to recorded sound and production aesthetics.

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“…Many people in the state embrace an aesthetic idealization of cowboy culture as a contemporary hangover from the agrarian past (Dent, ). Examples include the widely successful musica sertaneja (Brazilian country music) and popular bumper stickers featuring silhouettes of cowboys on horseback.…”

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Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil

Sullivan¹

2013

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In the last century, national and international movements in capital and ideas have contributed to the radical transformation of the Brazilian countryside. In Mato Grosso do Sul, Guarani have been displaced onto reservations (through often extra-legal means) due to deforestation for cattle ranches and agricultural plantations. Guarani land activists link displacement to problems like starvation and high crime rates. Today, protest occupations of plantations result in sometimes violent counter-mobilization by plantation owners. This article investigates the production of ethnic boundaries between self-identified 'Indians' and 'non-Indians', which become articulated as territorial. It interrogates how these boundaries are both produced by and contribute to the economic development policies driving the land grab in Brazil.

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Cross‐Cultural “Countries”: Covers, Conjuncture, and the Whiff of Nashville inMúsica Sertaneja(Brazilian Commercial Country Music)

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

Policing the unstable materialities of digital‐media piracy in Brazil

Policing the unstable materialities of digital‐media piracy in Brazil

Popular music studies and the problems of sound, society and method

Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil

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