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Carnival Brass Bands in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro: Disinheritance, Alternative Whiteness, and Musical Eclecticism

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Abstract This article explores the predominantly White brass band scenes of the carnivals of New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro as producing rituals of intensified social distinction. The bands’ musical practices realize aesthetic preferences of distinct racialized communities forged through relational positioning. Offering alternatives to the “heritage repertoires” of these carnivals based in musical Blackness, these bands’ musical eclecticism forms an aesthetic articulation of “alternative Whiteness,” which seeks to “disinherit” both hegemonic Whiteness of conservative cultural politics and commodification of Blackness. The article theorizes contemporary carnivalesque translocality in consideration of longer histories of festive circulation in the Atlantic World. Este artigo examina o cenário de bandas de sopros, formadas predominantemente por pessoas brancas, presentes nos carnavais de Nova Orleans e no Rio de Janeiro, caracterizando como rituais de intensificação da distinção social. As práticas musicais realizadas por essas bandas têm preferências estéticas distintas das comunidades negras forjadas por meio de posicionamento relacional. Oferecendo alternativas aos “repertórios de herança” desses carnavais baseados na negritude musical, o ecletismo musical dessas bandas forma uma articulação estética da “branquitude alternativa”, que busca “deserdar” tanto a branquitude hegemônica da política cultural conservadora quanto a comodificação da negritude. O artigo teoriza a translocalidade carnavalesca contemporânea em consideração a histórias mais longas de circulação festiva no Mundo Atlântico.
University of Illinois Press
Title: Carnival Brass Bands in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro: Disinheritance, Alternative Whiteness, and Musical Eclecticism
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Abstract This article explores the predominantly White brass band scenes of the carnivals of New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro as producing rituals of intensified social distinction.
The bands’ musical practices realize aesthetic preferences of distinct racialized communities forged through relational positioning.
Offering alternatives to the “heritage repertoires” of these carnivals based in musical Blackness, these bands’ musical eclecticism forms an aesthetic articulation of “alternative Whiteness,” which seeks to “disinherit” both hegemonic Whiteness of conservative cultural politics and commodification of Blackness.
The article theorizes contemporary carnivalesque translocality in consideration of longer histories of festive circulation in the Atlantic World.
Este artigo examina o cenário de bandas de sopros, formadas predominantemente por pessoas brancas, presentes nos carnavais de Nova Orleans e no Rio de Janeiro, caracterizando como rituais de intensificação da distinção social.
As práticas musicais realizadas por essas bandas têm preferências estéticas distintas das comunidades negras forjadas por meio de posicionamento relacional.
Oferecendo alternativas aos “repertórios de herança” desses carnavais baseados na negritude musical, o ecletismo musical dessas bandas forma uma articulação estética da “branquitude alternativa”, que busca “deserdar” tanto a branquitude hegemônica da política cultural conservadora quanto a comodificação da negritude.
O artigo teoriza a translocalidade carnavalesca contemporânea em consideração a histórias mais longas de circulação festiva no Mundo Atlântico.

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