During the 1990s Rio de Janeiro earned the epithet of 'divided city', an image underscored
by the contrast between its upper-class buildings and nearby hillside 'favelas.'The city's …

In Voices of Drought, Michael B. Silvers proposes a scholarship focused on environmental
justice to understand key questions in the study of music and the environment. His …

Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community
turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the …

Music-dance genres are not necessarily bound to a particular place, especially with regards
to their contemporary practice. They do, however, often have a (real or constructed) place …

This dissertation examines relationships between public festivity and articulations of power
through investigation of alternative carnival practices in Rio de Janeiro. I explore the musical …

The article is a schematic cultural-historical analysis of a major genre of regional popular
music in Brazil, baião (the precursor to today's forró). Using Gramscian terminology …

This article analyzes representations of Brazilianness at festivals in Toronto, Canada, to
understand how ethnoracialized groups are negotiating cultural commodification and …

This paper focuses on Shibuya-kei, a style of independent popular music that emerged in
Japan in the late 1980s and which has been influential in the popularisation of J-pop …

This article draws on ethnographic research on contemporary music in Recife, Brazil, to
show how people in the northeastern state of Pernambuco are redefining regional identity …

This article explores the neighbourhood-based samba practices of working class Afro-
Brazilians during the festas juninas (June Festivals) in Bahia, Brazil. In contrast to Bahia's …