Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil

Author:   Michael B. Silvers
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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Pages:   212
Publication Date:   16 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil


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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.

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Author:   Michael B. Silvers
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780252042089


ISBN 10:   0252042085
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   16 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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It is fun to read, filled with detailed information, and it moves between scholarly and popular ideas and language with ease. This unique and timely work offers an important contribution to our understanding of how music and ecology are linked. -Jennifer C. Post, editor of Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II


This unique and timely work offers an important contribution to our understanding of how music and ecology are linked. --Jennifer C. Post, editor of Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II


""This unique and timely work offers an important contribution to our understanding of how music and ecology are linked.""--Jennifer C. Post, editor of Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II


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

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