A City to Be Seen and to Be Heard (2024)

Music and Cosmopolitanism: Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the 20th Century

Cristina Magaldi

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2024

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9780197646090

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9780199744770

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Music and Cosmopolitanism: Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the 20th Century

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Magaldi, Cristina, 'A City to Be Seen and to Be Heard', Music and Cosmopolitanism: Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the 20th Century (New York, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 June 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199744770.003.0003, accessed 21 June 2024.

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The chapter suggests that the period’s inclination for visual culture did not sum up the sociocultural complexity of late-19th-century urban life and thus explores Rio de Janeiro not only as city to be seen, but also a city to be heard. The chapter suggests that local flâneurs, such as Olavo Bilac, João do Rio, and Luis Edmundo, were also “aural flâneurs,” as they narrated the city’s many soundscapes, describing the many sounds that could be heard in the city, from barrel organs and the gramophone to pianists, singers, and wind bands scattered around the city’s private and public spaces. The chapter proposes that Rio de Janeiro’s soundscape fed from and fed into a cosmopolitan urban cultural network that connected its residents to people living in other cities through an eclectic mix of shared urban experiences.

Keywords: flâneur, visual culture, aural flâneur, urban soundscape, Olavo Bilac, João do Rio, Luis Edmundo, barrel organ, gramophone, wind band

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Musicology and Music History Ethnomusicology

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Music and Cosmopolitanism. Cristina Magaldi, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199744770.003.0003

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