Voices of Drought

The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil

Michael B. Silvers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08377-8 (ISBN)

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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 ecomusicological perspective offers a fascinating approach to events in Ceará, a northeastern Brazilian state affected by devastating droughts. These crises have a profound impact on social difference and stratification, and thus on forró music in the sertão (backlands) of the region. At the same time, the complex interactions of popular music and social conditions also help create the environment. Silvers offers case studies focused on the sertão that range from the Brazilian wax harvested in Ceará for use in early wax cylinder sound recordings to the drought- and austerity-related cancellation of Carnival celebrations in 2014-16. Unearthing links between music and the environmental and social costs of drought, his daring synthesis explores ecological exile, poverty, and unequal access to water resources alongside issues like corruption, prejudice, unbridled capitalism, and expanding neoliberalism.

Michael B. Silvers is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	9 black and white photographs, 1 line drawing, 3 maps, 1 chart
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-252-08377-6 / 0252083776
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08377-8 / 9780252083778
Zustand	Neuware