Nacionalismo no metal brasileiro parte 1: uma introdução

Hugo L Ribeiro

Authors

Hugo L Ribeiro, Dr University of Brasilia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2550-0285

Keywords:

Nationalism, Rock, Heavy metal, Rhythm, Melody, Timbre, Mário de Andrade

Abstract

This article is an introduction to nationalism in music and its uses for the creation of an identity perception in Metal produced in Brazil. To achieve this goal, I intend to investigate the obvious signs that the Metal audience is looking for and what the bands exhibit, to mark their belonging to the Brazilian culture. In this way, I try to analyze the use of a certain symbology of the local / national culture in audiovisual productions as a way, on the one hand, to create an identification with the local musical practices, and on the other hand, to create a differential in relation to the traditional metal bands foreign countries. This text begins with a historical approach on the construction of Brazilian musical nationalism through the constant use of certain patterns of rhythm, melody and timbre, to later address the characteristics of the genre Rock in general and Rock in Brazil. Next, I will deal with the genre Metal in Brazil and end with a proposal of theoretical references for this ethnomusicological analysis.

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Author Biography

Hugo L Ribeiro, Dr, University of Brasilia

Dr, professor of music at Brasília University, Brazil. He holds a Bachelor in music composition and a Master and PhD in ethnomusicology from the Federal University of Bahia. He is author of “As Taieieras” (The Taieiras), a book about traditional (folk) groups in the northeastern of Brazil, and “Da fúria Ã melancolia” (From anger to melancholy) about the metal scene in a small city of Brazil.