Nordestina negotiations: Alternative femininities, gendered and musical self-production in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Rice, Ellen McKay

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Title

Nordestina negotiations: Alternative femininities, gendered and musical self-production in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Author(s)

Rice, Ellen McKay

Issue Date

2019-04-25

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Silvers, Michael B.

Committee Member(s)

Buchanan, Donna A.

Department of Study

Music

Discipline

Music

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.Mus.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

• Manguebeat
• Mangue
• Recife
• Pernambuco
• Brazil
• Comadre Florzinha
• Karina Buhr
• Alessandra Leao
• Renata Rosa
• Brazilian music
• self-production
• gender
• femininity

Abstract

This project follows the career trajectories of three women who were influential in the manguebeat movement of 1990s and early 2000s Recife, Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil. Karina Buhr, Alessandra Leão, and Renata Rosa have each contributed significant innovations to Recife’s music scene, both in their work with mangue-affiliated band Comadre Fulozinha, and also through more recent solo releases. Even so, I believe that some of the most significant contributions of these artists are not just musical, but simultaneously, social. While this thesis began as an exercise in canon correction aimed at re-centering the contributions of women in mangue, it grew to focus on the unique ways each of the artists mentioned here have worked to expand the possibilities for alternative femininities in Pernambuco, and in northeastern Brazil. Through careful manipulation of sound, images, and especially, through performance in multiple registers—including that of the voice—these artists continue to make space for new ways of being in the world.

Graduation Semester

2019-05

Type of Resource

text

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