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A Respectable Spell: Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro

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A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English-speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth century origins to its emergence as a distinctive genre in the 1930s. Merging storytelling with theory, Carlos Sandroni profiles performers, composers, and others while analyzing the complex ideologies their music can communicate in their lyrics and rhythms, and how the meaning of songs and musical genres can vary depending on social and historical context. He also delves into lundu, modinha, maxixe, and many other genres of Brazilian music; presents the little-heard voices and perspectives of marginalized Brazilians like the African-descended sambistas; and presents a study in step with the types of decolonial approaches to ethnomusicology that have since emerged, treating the people being studied not only as makers of music but also of knowledge.

Incisive and comprehensive, A Respectable Spell tells the compelling story of an iconic Brazilian musical genre.

Author(s): Carlos Sandroni
Series: Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Year: 2021

Language: English
Pages: 304
City: Champaign

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Translator’s Foreword: The Decolonial Spark of a Translated Spell
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the English Translation
Original Introduction
Musical Premises
Part One: From Lundu to Samba
Chapter 1. “Sweet Lundus, for Massa to Dream”
Chapter 2. Maxixe and Its Antecedents
Chapter 3. From Bahia to Rio
Chapter 4. From the Dining Room to the Drawing Room
Chapter 5. “Pelo telefone”
Part Two: From One Samba to the Other
Chapter 6. When Did Samba Become Samba?
Chapter 7. Birds and Commodities
Chapter 8. From Malandro to Composer
Chapter 9. A Respectable Spell
Chapter 10. On the Gramophone
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Back cover