Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the rise in the 2000s to one beset by various crises in the 2010s. Though predominantly middle-class, neofanfarristas have creatively adapted the critical theories of carnival to militate for a more democratic city. Illuminating the tangible obstacles to musical movement building, Andrew Snyder argues that festive activism with privileged origins can promote real alternatives to the neoliberal city, but meets many limits and contradictions in a society marked by diverse inequalities.
Table of Content
CONTENTS • Introduction: An Alternative Movement in an Olympic City • 1. Revival: The Death and Life of Street Carnival • 2. Experimentation: ‘To Play Anything’ • 3. Inclusion: ‘Whose Rio?’ • 4. Resistance: ‘Nothing Should Seem Impossible to Change’ • 5. Diversification: Neofanfarrismo of the Excluded • 6. Consolidation: The HONK Ri O! Festival of Activist Brass Bands • Appendix 1: Carioca Bands and Blocos discussed in the book • References
About the author
Andrew Snyder is an Integrated Researcher in the Instituto de Ethnomusicologia at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. As a trumpeter and scholar interested in intersections between public festivity and social movements, he co-edited HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism and At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice and he has published articles in, Ethnomusicology, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Luso-Brazilian Review among others. He is also the author of, Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro.
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