MUSIC, RACE, AND CULTURE IN BRAZIL

3 credits.

Focuses on music's significant role in the formation and maintenance of Brazilian national identity. Learn how a variety of Brazilian individuals, groups, and institutions have contributed to popular and scholarly debates about Brazilian culture, identity, and forms of belonging. These discussions will be anchored to important themes in Brazil's recent history, present, and imagined future, such as cultural cannibalism (antropofagia), and racial hybridity (mestiçagem). Gain insight into how Brazilian artists and their audiences have debated race and racism through expressive means by analyzing a variety of anthropological and ethnomusicological texts about Brazilian popular music, literature, and its most famous annual ritual, Carnival.