Un Laudate Pueri Como Antiobra (Acerca De La InvencióN De La MúSica JesuíTica De Chiquitos) (open access)

Un Laudate Pueri Como Antiobra (Acerca De La InvencióN De La MúSica JesuíTica De Chiquitos)

This article examines the invention of the Jesuit Music of Chiquitos.
Date: 1998
Creator: Illari, Bernardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competing Discourses: The Interplay of Musical Style and Patronage in Recife’s New Popular Music Scene (open access)

Competing Discourses: The Interplay of Musical Style and Patronage in Recife’s New Popular Music Scene

Paper on the factors that affected of alternative popular music in Recife, Brazil. The contrasts between the discourses of bands, producers, and patrons reflect larger tensions in the Recife alternative music scene, which in turn point towards ruptures in the relationship between mainstream and alternative cultural production in Brazil.
Date: July 6, 2001
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Identity, Cultural Politics, and the Circulation of Musical Ideas: Alternative Popular Music in Northeast Brazil (open access)

Regional Identity, Cultural Politics, and the Circulation of Musical Ideas: Alternative Popular Music in Northeast Brazil

This paper explains how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology held in Detroit, Michigan on October 25-28, 2001.
Date: October 2001
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Um Nordeste Alternativo: A nova cena do Recife (open access)

Um Nordeste Alternativo: A nova cena do Recife

This paper focuses on music trends in Recife, Brazil in 2000-01. It explores how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the first Associação Brasileira de Etnomusicologia conference held in Recife in November 2002.
Date: November 2002
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mangue Beat and Popular Culture (open access)

Mangue Beat and Popular Culture

This essay explores the author's perspective of Mangue Beat and popular culture. The discussion of popular culture focuses on the musical aspects of popular culture, especially those he experienced during his time living in Recife, Brazil from 1990-91. It includes a translation into Brazilian Portuguese by André Curiati de Paula Bueno.
Date: 2003
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick) & Bueno, André Curiati de Paula
System: The UNT Digital Library
Precursors to the Formation of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (open access)

Precursors to the Formation of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Paper exploring the composers and events that contributed to the creation of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
Date: 2003-10-31/2003-11-01
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethnomusicologists and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (open access)

Ethnomusicologists and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

This paper discusses ethnomusicologists and noise-induced hearing loss.
Date: 2010
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music Appreciation: To What End? (open access)

Music Appreciation: To What End?

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. This paper discusses music appreciation. The author looks at who is qualified to teach a Music Appreciation course, what the true purpose of such a course is in the general curriculum, and what our responsibility in musically educating our citizens is.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Spring, Staci
System: The UNT Digital Library