A study of caipira, Brazil's most indigenous country music, and the commodification of the rural in Brazilian popular culture.
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing musica sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil's central-southern region …
"Today's intellectual property regime is dysfunctional. The extensive policing of copying does not reduce rates of "piracy," nor does it get producers of music, movies, or medicines paid more or more inclined to innovate. But what new modes of circulation and production have eme…
"Today's intellectual property regime is dysfunctional. The extensive policing of copying does not reduce rates of "piracy," nor does it get producers of music, movies, or medicines paid more or more inclined to innovate. But what new modes of circulation and production have eme…
"Today's intellectual property regime is dysfunctional. The extensive policing of copying does not reduce rates of "piracy, " nor does it get producers of music, movies, or medicines paid more or more inclined to innovate. But what new modes of circulation and production have em…
Introduction : the joys and sorrows of digital textuality -- "Magical" consumption and the violence of informality -- The materialities of digital texts -- Bordering, the Internet, and Paraguayan horses -- Pre-Papal preparations and cellularity -- Digital textuality as interrupt…
"Today's intellectual property regime is dysfunctional. The extensive policing of copying does not reduce rates of "piracy," nor does it get producers of music, movies, or medicines paid more or more inclined to innovate. But what new modes of circulation and production have eme…
"Today's intellectual property regime is dysfunctional. The extensive policing of copying does not reduce rates of "piracy," nor does it get producers of music, movies, or medicines paid more or more inclined to innovate. But what new modes of circulation and production have eme…