Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Silvers, Michael B., author.

Title Voices of drought : the politics of music and environment in Northeastern Brazil / Michael B. Silvers.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

Item Status

Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Hills, Dales, and the Jaguaribe Valley: Carnauba Wax at the Dawn of Recorded Sound; Chapter 2. "Help Your Brother": Drought Songs as Protest; Chapter 3. The Secret of the Sertanejo: Listening to Forró, Hearing Drought; Chapter 4. Sounding the Real Backlands: Raimundo Fagner and the Soundscape of Orós; Chapter 5. Real or Plastic Forró: Soundscapes of a Changing Economy; Chapter 6. Forró, or Bread and Circuses: Carnival in Times of Drought; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Music -- Political aspects -- Brazil, Northeast.
Music -- Political aspects.
Northeast Brazil.
Music.
Droughts -- Brazil, Northeast.
Droughts.
Ecomusicology -- Brazil, Northeast.
Ecomusicology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Silvers, Michael B. Voices of drought. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] 9780252042089 (DLC) 2018018121 (OCoLC)1031342011
ISBN 9780252050831 (electronic book)
0252050835 (electronic book)
9780252042089
0252042085
9780252083778
0252083776