Musical Nationalism for the 21st Century: From Andrade’s Archive to A Barca’s Repertoire

Krista Brune

doi:10.21471/jls.v11i0.79

Musical Nationalism for the 21st Century: From Andrade’s Archive to A Barca’s Repertoire

Krista Brune University of California, Berkeley

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v11i0.79

Keywords: Mário de Andrade, popular Brazilian music, cultural nationalism

Abstract

This paper compares the first album of the São Paulo based group A Barca to Mário de Andrade’s musical nationalism in the early 20th century, which inspired the contemporary group. Rather than precisely replicating the original sources, A Barca creates a hybrid cultural form that blurs the constructed distinctions between popular and erudite, traditional and modern. By analyzing A Barca’s project, this paper addresses ongoing regional dynamics within Brazilian culture and the problematic constructs of “authenticity” and “popular”.

Published

2013-10-03

Issue

Vol 11 (2013): ellipsis

Section

Articles

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