Speakers:

Christina Richter-Ibáñez (University of Tübingen - Germany)

Felipe Trotta (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil)

Simone Pereira de Sá (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil)

Chair: Glaucia Peres da Silva (Universität Duisburg-Essen - Germany)

Description:

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the global music market is fulfilled with Latin American songs. Puerto Rican sociologist Angel Quintero Rivera, in the first pages of his book Salsa, sabor y control, reveals his intention to unveil the contribution of the Caribbean and Latin America for the happiness of the world. In his perspective, music-making in Latin America embodies a displacement in global power asymmetries, processing and reprocessing coloniality through songs, rhythms and dance. In this sense, pop music is taken as a device that challenges European colonial rationality, mixing it with alternative cosmologies and philosophical ways of being.

This panel aims to discuss the ways through which Brazilian popular music circulates worldwide, unveiling the market and performative strategies applied to achieve international audiences. Three songs will guide this debate, ranging from the 1990s until 2021: “Bate forte o tambor” (Carrapicho, 1996), “Ai Se Eu Te Pego” (Michel Teló, 2011) and “Girl from Rio” (Anitta, 2021). The songs negotiate in different ways modes of being Brazilian, sometimes reinforcing, and other challenging stereotypes of “latino” happiness and erotization. Issues of gender, cultural identity and power asymmetries emerge from the circulation of these peripheral pop songs, mediated by different media systems and translated into other languages, that spread images and sounds from Brazil and Latin America across the Global North.

About:

Christina Richter-Ibáñez is Postdoc researcher and lecturer in musicology at the University of Tübingen. She received her PhD from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart in 2013. Her dissertation focused on the youth of the composer Mauricio Kagel and the musical life in Buenos Aires 1946 to 1957. She took also part in the Balzan Research Project, directed by Reinhard Strohm (2016/2017), and worked as a senior scientist at Paris Lodron University in Salzburg in 2018. She published articles and books on contemporary music theatre and the voice, Mauricio Kagel, German musicians in Latin America and the history of musicology.

Felipe Trotta is a musicologist, professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies  of the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He is also de coordinator of the Post-graduate Program within the university and chair of the Latin-America branch of the International Association For Study of Popular Music (IASPM-AL). He is the author of the books Annoying Music in Everyday Life (Bloomsbury, 2020), No Ceará não tem disso não (Folio Digita, 2014) and O samba e suas fronteiras (EdUFRJ, 2011). He is also co-editor (together with Martha Ulhoa and Claudia Azevedo) of the volume Made in Brazil: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2015).

Glaucia Peres da Silva is sociologist and responsible for the Global Awareness Education Program at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on economic sociology, sociology of the arts, and global and transnational processes. She is currently studying musicians’ transnational mobility based on the example of the World Music market with a particular focus on the dynamics of trade fairs, festivals, and exhibitions. Relevant publications are Wie klingt die globale Ordnung. Die Entstehung eines Marktes für World Music (VS Springer 2016) and Music Practices Across Borders (with Kontantin Hondros, transcript 2019).

Simone Pereira de Sá is a professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies and the Post-Graduate Program in Communication Studies at Federal Fluminense University (UFF/Brazil). She researches Brazilian music scenes, audiovisualities and digital culture; and is the author of the books Música Pop-Periférica: videoclipes, performances e tretas na cultura digital (Appris; 2021); O Samba em Rede: comunidades virtuais, dinâmicas identitárias e Carnaval carioca (E-Papers, 2005); and Baiana Internacional: as mediações culturais de Carmen Miranda (M.I.S; 2002). She is also the co-editor (with  Amaral and Janotti Jr) of the book: Territórios Afetivos da Imagem e do Som (Selo UFMG, 2020); and (with Ferraraz and Carreiro)   Cultura Pop ( EdUFBA; 2015), among others.