Voices of DroughtPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0004
Michael B. Silvers
{"title":"The Secret of the Sertanejo","authors":"Michael B. Silvers","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter concerns the process through which Luiz Gonzaga’s voice--recorded, disseminated, and popularized by a national music industry--became a vehicle for the transmission of ecological knowledge about rain, drought, and the meaning of birdsong. Into the twenty-first century, rain prophets, who announce their observation-based forecasts at a public event in the backlands each January, take inspiration from Gonzaga’s mass-mediated songs, sometimes referring to the song’s lyrics when discussing knowledge about the weather. In doing so, they assert their trust in local ecological knowledge over other kinds of institutionally sanctioned knowledge about the local ecology.","PeriodicalId":235609,"journal":{"name":"Voices of Drought","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124730688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Voices of DroughtPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0002
Michael B. Silvers
{"title":"Hills, Dales, and the Jaguaribe Valley","authors":"Michael B. Silvers","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is a commodity biography of drought-resistant carnauba wax from northeastern Brazil and primarily concerns the fabrication of wax cylinders and 78-RPM records in the early years of sound reproduction. The wax, which was sold to the nascent recording industry in the United States to be molded into cylinders or pressed into wax masters, became a profitable industry for Ceará, enabling many people in the region to acquire the very technologies of mass mediation that used the local wax. Most generally, the chapter shows the circulation of this natural resource, as well as the conditions for workers involved in the commodity chain from wax to mass-mediated sound.","PeriodicalId":235609,"journal":{"name":"Voices of Drought","volume":"319 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134324353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Voices of DroughtPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0003
Michael B. Silvers
{"title":"“Help Your Brother”","authors":"Michael B. Silvers","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines foothills forró as a form of environmental protest, voiced through the strategic use of nostalgia, through dancing bodies and occupied spaces, and through explicit requests aimed at the government and the Brazilian populace alike. Much scholarship on foothills forró understands the genre as either a kitschy regional caricature or as an authentic channel from the city to the backlands. Instead, this chapter considers it a deliberate effort to generate sympathy and aid for northeasterners, for whom it also offered comfort and a musical space-time of their own.","PeriodicalId":235609,"journal":{"name":"Voices of Drought","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123672454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Voices of DroughtPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0005
Michael B. Silvers
{"title":"Sounding the Real Backlands","authors":"Michael B. Silvers","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the construction and management of the soundscape of Orós as it relates to Raimundo Fagner and his music. Fagner, who is closely associated with the city, often names it in his songs and in public, employing it as a metonym for the drought-ridden backlands and a source of northeastern authenticity. But in the actual soundscape of Orós, Fagner’s rendering of the city and his own habits of listening collide with the aural aesthetics and needs of the local population. As both an icon and a sometimes-resident of Orós, he expresses, contributes to, and disrupts they city’s soundscape.","PeriodicalId":235609,"journal":{"name":"Voices of Drought","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121215924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Voices of DroughtPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0008
Michael B. Silvers
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Michael B. Silvers","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter summarizes the book’s historical trajectory. It also synthesizes and reviews the book’s three primary conclusions: that music and ecology are linked through political and economic contexts; that environmental phenomena affect popular music in both material and semiotic ways; and that the discursive invention of Brazil’s northeast region has had material effects on the region and on the northeastern experience. Finally, it concludes that environmental change will affect (and has affected) music and musical culture in many ways, and that tendencies toward neoliberalism will make vulnerable many musicians and listeners.","PeriodicalId":235609,"journal":{"name":"Voices of Drought","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114432623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Voices of DroughtPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0006
Michael B. Silvers
{"title":"Real or Plastic Forró","authors":"Michael B. Silvers","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter dialogues with ideas about the sustainability of musical culture by offering a case study in which robust cultural policy, supporting foothills forró, was implemented by the same leftist Workers’ Party government that brought millions of Brazilians out of poverty at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century. The new consumer class amplified the success of electronic forró, a genre often considered a threat to foothills forró. It is this paradox--that the leftist goals of ameliorating poverty and of bolstering a cultural policy that can sustain vibrant music ecologies might sometimes be at odds--I wish to bring to the debate over musical sustainability.","PeriodicalId":235609,"journal":{"name":"Voices of Drought","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127681352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Voices of DroughtPub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0007
Michael B. Silvers
{"title":"Forró, or Bread and Circuses","authors":"Michael B. Silvers","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042089.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at the cost of Carnival celebrations in an era of economic austerity due to drought and economic crisis. In 2014, ’15, and ’16, an ongoing drought of historic magnitude led the Ceará governor to redirect state monies intended for Carnival and other music-related celebrations to more urgent drought-relief efforts. Is music as vital as water? In the context of national economic crisis and massive drought, this chapter suggests that electronic forró’s continued dominance points to the increasing neoliberalization of culture in Brazil in the wake of social successes for the Workers’ Party and a period of optimistic and ambitious cultural policy.","PeriodicalId":235609,"journal":{"name":"Voices of Drought","volume":"80 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123454979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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