Reviews for Balinese DisCourses on Music and Modernization: Village Voices and Urban Views

The average rating for Balinese DisCourses on Music and Modernization: Village Voices and Urban Views based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-11 00:00:00 Jocelyn Gagnon This was a very thoroughly researched, extremely informative work on the extensive history of the musical movement known as Tropicalia in Brazil in the 1960s-early '70s (and beyond)and the greater social, racial, ethnic, political, and economic contexts in which it was bred, as well as its lasting effects on questions of national identity, racial politics, the legacy of European colonialism and American neocolonialism, etc. in Brazil. I would have loved to have given this 5 stars. However, there were a few too many misspellings and grammatical errors for this sort of publication (or any publication). For example, the author mentions Billie Holiday as one of the many African-American musical influences on the Afro-Bahian aesthetic of the Brazilian counter-cultural movement in the 1970s and he spells her first name "Billy"? Come on....

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-19 00:00:00 Clarence Mcvey A nice description of Brazilian political and social history through the sounds of the Tropicalia movement. Covers a lot more than just the music of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes etc. but the descriptions of the politics and social movements of the latter half of the 20th century put the music in context. I thought it was a good companion to the BBC 4 documentaries (Brazil, Brazil) you can find on Youtube.