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MUSIC, RACE, AND CULTURE IN BRAZIL

ANTHRO 340
Course Description

Focuses on music's significant role in the formation and maintenance of Brazilian national identity. Learn how a variety of Brazilian individuals, groups, and institutions have contributed to popular and scholarly debates about Brazilian culture, identity, and forms of belonging. These discussions will be anchored to important themes in Brazil's recent history, present, and imagined future, such as cultural cannibalism (antropofagia), and racial hybridity (mestiçagem). Gain insight into how Brazilian artists and their audiences have debated race and racism through expressive means by analyzing a variety of anthropological and ethnomusicological texts about Brazilian popular music, literature, and its most famous annual ritual, Carnival.

Prerequisites

ANTHRO 100 , ANTHRO 104 , or sophomore standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.83

6.03% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

No change from Historical

A Rate
80%

9.47% from Historical

Class Size
15

15.38% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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