Cultural Anthropogy

The present article, which is theoretical, bibliographical as well as phonographic-documental in nature, aims to reflect on how daily life influenced Jackson do Pandeiro’s compositions and interpretations. Moments of Jackson do Pandeiro’s trajectory and excerpts of songs were selected to expose the importance of daily life for his work. The article shows that Jackson do Pandeiro’s works establish a dialectic relationship with the society that raised him, enabling listeners to access a critical potency. This potentiality grants them a new set of lenses to interpret daily life, which, in turn, is the cradle of artists’ inspiration. This set of factors led the musical sphere as well as some of the Brazilian intellectual elite to consider Jackson do Pandeiro the King of Rhythm in the Música Popular Brasileira, MPB [Brazilian Folk Music].

This article points out some elements that can help to understand the difficulty of analyzing popular music in Brazil with the forms of analysis commonly used by classical aesthetics and philosophy of music. In addition, it indicates some possible paths for the development of a critique of national musical material. To this end, this article retrieves some fundamental questions about the history of popular music in Brazil: its triple origin (African, European and Amerindian), the influence of capitalism in the first decades of the twentieth century, the concept of ‘popular’, its connection with early lyric poetry and its multiple forms of expression. Article received: April 20, 2021; Article accepted: June 23, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Review paper How to cite this article: Burnett, Henry. "Ten (Anti-) Theses for a Brazilian Popular Musical Aesthetic." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 53-61. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.469  

This is an essay on the methodological approach in the myth studies of Wen Yiduo (Wen I-to), as he explored the origins of Chinese myths in early literature, especially the Shijing. It considers the possible influence from European myth studies on his work, especially such as Frederick Max Muller and Andrew Lang.

Caetano Veloso's 2004 album, A Foreign Sound, is a love letter to North American music and a self-reflexive meditation on what Barbara Browning calls the "blender of US/Brazilian musical relations" (136). Browning's book on Veloso's album, published in Bloomsbury's new 33⅓ Brazil series, extends this meditation to a meta-foreign level by positioning the author herself as an "estranged but curious" foreign listener (160). That is, she explores the album's foreignness to understand not only Veloso's creative renderings, but also her own relationship, as an American scholar, to Brazil and the foreign sounds caught between the two countries. She invites readers to rethink their personal relationships to music and its capacity to destabilize national boundaries.

Culture is well acclaimed as the fourth pillar of sustainable development along with the environmental, social and economic aspects. Cultural hybridization and degradization is visible along with urbanization and development and we are trailing towards cultural vacuum. This situation is resulting in the loss of significant indigenous traditions along with values and morals.  This is greatly affecting the life pattern, behavior pattern and thinking of people. Social bonding is loosing and resulting in to various social problems along with loss of cultural identity, traditions and dialects / languages. To rescue this situation, indigenous culture must be viewed as an integral part of development policy making and implementation. Indigenous knowledge system is developed as per the ecological setup of the region and its understanding and continuation is important in development of policy making and indigenous regional sustenance. Cultural aspects must be considered specially while making educational, economic, health, environmental and tourism policies for a particular region or target group. People are forgetting their traditions, history, identity and values. Hence, there is a need for generating awareness and sense of pride for indigenous culture to protect and preserve the indigenous culture, traditions, identity and heritage. Younger generation loosing interest in the traditional methods must also be made aware to protect effective traditional cultural practices and valuable herbal plants before they get lost due to impact of modernization, urbanization and deforestation. This will help in strengthening social bonding, unity, values, socio-economic independence, sustenance at community level and protecting cultural heritage. This will also improve community involvement and community based cultural sustainable development. Implementation of correct, collaborative and effective mix of traditional and modern practices will prove more fruitful in this perspective. Preservation and promotion of tangible and intangible cultural heritage is essential for preservation of culture and cultural sustenance. Role of public cultural institutions will be significant in achieving this goal of cultural sustainability. This paper deals with regional issues, challenges and prospects related with the cultural sustainability explained through local examples.

This article addresses the various appropriations of the Beatles' songs in Brazil. It proposes a thorough account, within the limits of an article, aiming to comprehend the aesthetic and political battles concerning the incorporation of the Beatles' sound into Brazilian national culture. The article analyses both the incorporation and rejection of the Beatles' sound from various national musical segments, and the importance of the anthropophagization of the electric guitar by the tropicalists (Os Tropicalistas). From this perspective, I illustrate how distinction within Brazilian musical fields has been reconstructed via two different types of incorporation of the group's sound: one pre-Sgt. Pepper and another post-Sgt. Pepper and how they influenced the uneven battle for the institutional memory of Brazilian culture.

Rezensionen -Reviews 348 the case of Phil Spector) in the larger social worlds of musical genres and eras in which they operated. He masterfully draws from their experience the constant question of Jewishness and its relation to a black-white binary within different societies. He deserves credit for distinguishing the circumstances of Anglophone countries in the West and invites testing of the »whitening« thesis in other European countries, particularly those with consciousness of black music and social categorization of racialized blackness. Stratton reminds scholars relegating blackface and racialization to a distant, unenlightened past of the scholarly challenge of viewing subtle, but profound, meanings of blackness and Jewishness (and their implications of marginalization) into the contemporary, global age.

Adopting imports: new images and alliances in Brazilian popular music of the 1990s 1 CRISTINA MAGALDI Anyone visiting Brazil today in search of an idealised 'Brazilian Sound' might, at first, be disappointed with the popular music scene. 2 The visitor will soon realise that established musical styles such as bossa nova and MPB (Miisica Popular Brazileira (Brazilian Popular Music)), with their well-defined roles within the Brazilian social and political scene of the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, have lost their immediate appeal with some contemporary audiences, and especially with Brazilian urban youth. 3 In the 1990s, Brazilian radio and TV are saturated with a variety of new local genres that borrow heavily from international musical styles of all kinds and use state-of-the-art electronic apparatus. Hybrid terms such as samba-rock,

This thesis addresses, amongst other issues, the phenomenon of protest music with particular reference to Brazil within its pre-and post-dictatorship period. The timeframe being understood as that which finds its roots many decades prior to the 1964 so-called revolution a de facto military putsch and comes to flower in the democratic moment of the 1980s and since. The focus will be, eventually, directed to one of the most celebrated Brazilian rock phenomena, the band Legião Urbana, the impact of which still resonates across the artistic, cultural and political scene in Brazil and beyond. In order to establish the context in which such a claim can be viable, the thesis explores the ideological and historical background to the emergence, on a national, and international, stage of something beyond the artistic and cultural dependence seing before that period within Brazilian music.

Europäische Minderheitenbewegungen scheinen gegenwärtig politisch stärker als je zuvor zu sein. Das vorliegende Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Kräfte und Ressourcen Saamen und Sorben als kleinen ethnischen Minderheitengruppen für eine Mobilisierung zur Verfügung stehen. Grundlage ist dabei die Kombination der Auswertung von Feldforschungsmaterial (darunter ca. 60 Interviews mit Aktivisten und Minderheitenvertretern) mit der Analyse des politisch-juristischen Kontextes. Zum einen werden das Selbstbild und die politischen sowie die kulturellen Forderungen und Vorstellungen von Sorben in Deutschland und Saamen in Finnland nachgezeichnet. Zum anderen geht es darum, den rechtlich institutionalisierten Minderheitenschutz als identitätsstiftenden politischen "Hebel" zu begreifen. Kulturelle Rechte, wie sie in den internationalen Menschenrechts- und Minderheitenschutzbestimmungen formuliert sind, spielen für das Selbstverständnis der sorbischen und saamischen Minderheitenorganisationen eine außerordentlich wichtige Rolle. Das internationalen Minderheitenschutzbestimmungen zugrundeliegende Postulat, Minderheiten seien quasi "natürliche" Gruppen, führt dazu, daß diese - um Schutz beanspruchen zu können - auch tatsächlich zu solchen werden bzw. als solche auftreten. Dabei greifen die Aktivisten notwendigerweise auf Vokabular und Grammatik des Nationalismus zurück.