“Wonderful South”: Northeastern diaspora experiences in Brazilian popular music in the 60’s and 70’s

Authors

  • André Rocha Leite Haudenschild

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-03

Abstract

The article aims at identifying the creation of a topic that is disseminated as a long literary and musical tradition within our popular song: the diasporic experience of composers (mainly from the Brazilian Northeast) during their migration to the urban centers that were the protagonists of national modernization throughout the twentieth century, which will manifest itself as a civilizing tension between the cultural universes of “sertão” and “metropolis” in the 1960s and 1970s. The object of this analysis is a set of songs, based on which we try to understand this diasporic experience as a germinal theme in Brazilian popular music linked to the invention of “sertão” as a physical and immaterial “space of memory” as well as the manifestation of a symptomatic “malaise of civilization” that will become widespread in the Brazilian popular song from the mid-1960s on.

keywords: diaspora; cultural history; Brazilian popular music.

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Author Biography

André Rocha Leite Haudenschild

Doutor em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), realizando estágio de pós-doutorado junto ao Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) com apoio do CNPq. Autor de Alegria selvagem: a lírica da natureza em Tom Jobim. São Paulo: Olho D

Published

2017-03-27

How to Cite

Haudenschild, A. R. L. (2017). “Wonderful South”: Northeastern diaspora experiences in Brazilian popular music in the 60’s and 70’s. ArtCultura, 18(33). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-03

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Minidossiê: Entre a Modernidade e a Contemporaneidade