Dear all, any of you going to New Orleans for the IASPM-US 2019?
I had a paper accepted titled "Pop entertainment music in mid-19th
century".
Port cities in the 19th-century were known for their busy and noisy
exchange, not only of commercial goods, but also of cultural practices.
Like what occurred in New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro was also the stage for
the invention of one instance of what Joseph Roach called “circum-Atlantic
world”, this time with the contribution of “Ethiopian” (as described by
Reverend Kidder during a visit to Rio in the 1840s), and Iberian elements,
in practices dislocated from Paris, then the hegemonic cultural center of
the world. Among the sounds filling Rio’s narrow streets and church squares
were the grinding tunes of street organs, alongside yells advertising goods
and work songs, all of them performed or operated by slave laborers. Using
as data all 287 occurrences of “barrel organ” or “street organ”, in a
single Rio de Janeiro newspaper, between 1821 and 1858, this presentation
will discuss its repertoire, and its performance context, from a musicology
perspective. Preliminary results show the street organ being used from
mechanical playhouses soundtrack to the accompaniment of church services.
Also, there is evidence, of at least one tune, ubiquitously played over and
over by street organs, making its way into what could be called
entertainment pop music. The concluding analytical interpretation will
comment on issues of music, technology and identity, contributing to expand
some of the well-established popular music history narratives.
Cheers,
Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa
PPGM - UNIRIO
+55 21 2287-3775 / celular/WhatsApp: +55 21 99993-3775
http://lattes.cnpq.br/5378800627543781
https://unirio.academia.edu/MarthaUlhoa/Papers
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