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Frederick Moehn guides us on a scintillating exploration of Brazilian popular music of the 1990s, combining deep critical explication of the work of key performers with sharp delineation of that work's place in the political and commercial context. No previous author has balanced intimate knowledge of popular music as a studio creation with careful exploration of the Brazilian cultural marketplace as successfully as Moehn does here. --Bryan McCann, Georgetown University

"""Contemporary Carioca is an engaging study of musical production in contemporary Brazil that focuses on a group of Rio-based, middle-class musicians who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s and continue to produce innovative work. Among the book's many strengths is its organization around individual artists and the ways that they have approached questions of globalization, national identity, social class, race, and gender. Frederick Moehn succeeds admirably in describing and analyzing the specificity of Brazilian strategies for negotiating global and local musical practices."" Christopher Dunn, co-editor of Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship ""Frederick Moehn guides us on a scintillating exploration of Brazilian popular music of the 1990s, combining deep critical explication of the work of key performers with sharp delineation of that work's place in the political and commercial context. No previous author has balanced intimate knowledge of popular music as a studio creation with careful exploration of the Brazilian cultural marketplace as successfully as Moehn does here."" Bryan McCann, Georgetown University ""...ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn persuasively argues in his thoroughly researched study of the popular music scene in Rio de Janeiro since 1990s, the project to ""insert Brazil into pop"", a reinvigoration of traditions immediately understood as Brazilian through the appropriation of international styles and methods was in fact ""the most Brazilian thing to do"". Moehn cleanly dissects the complex sociology of the moment in his introduction, detailing how, among other factors, Brazil's multiracial heritage, the 'cultural cannibalism' that is a central tenet of Brazilian modernism, and the role of the middle class as an intellectual force as well as a consumer base, were all necessary ingredients for Musica Popular Brasileira's giant steps since the 90s... Contemporary Carioca is a solid scholarly text, and it's a good read."" - Bill Shoemaker, The Wire, August 2012"

""Contemporary Carioca is an engaging study of musical production in contemporary Brazil that focuses on a group of Rio-based, middle-class musicians who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s and continue to produce innovative work. Among the book's many strengths is its organization around individual artists and the ways that they have approached questions of globalization, national identity, social class, race, and gender. Frederick Moehn succeeds admirably in describing and analyzing the specificity of Brazilian strategies for negotiating global and local musical practices."" Christopher Dunn, co-editor of Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship ""Frederick Moehn guides us on a scintillating exploration of Brazilian popular music of the 1990s, combining deep critical explication of the work of key performers with sharp delineation of that work's place in the political and commercial context. No previous author has balanced intimate knowledge of popular music as a studio creation with careful exploration of the Brazilian cultural marketplace as successfully as Moehn does here."" Bryan McCann, Georgetown University ""...ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn persuasively argues in his thoroughly researched study of the popular music scene in Rio de Janeiro since 1990s, the project to ""insert Brazil into pop"", a reinvigoration of traditions immediately understood as Brazilian through the appropriation of international styles and methods was in fact ""the most Brazilian thing to do"". Moehn cleanly dissects the complex sociology of the moment in his introduction, detailing how, among other factors, Brazil's multiracial heritage, the 'cultural cannibalism' that is a central tenet of Brazilian modernism, and the role of the middle class as an intellectual force as well as a consumer base, were all necessary ingredients for Musica Popular Brasileira's giant steps since the 90s... Contemporary Carioca is a solid scholarly text, and it's a good read."" - Bill Shoemaker, The Wire, August 2012

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Frederick Moehn is Lecturer in Music at King's College London.

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