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Adaptation and Recontextualization in the Brazilian Modinha

出版	Catholic University of America. 2023., 2023
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=llM40AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋After a prosperous period of cultivation during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as both a salon and street genre, the Brazilian modinha declined in popularity and was displaced by other sentimental song genres. However, throughout the twentieth century, poets, composers, and songwriters continued to embrace modinhas while disseminating them via new contexts and media. This dissertation argues that although modinhas are seemingly simple and outdated sentimental songs, they have been selectively cultivated throughout the genre's history because of their ability to function as concise and evocative musico-poetic fragments within a broad range of social, cultural, and historical narratives. To enhance the effectiveness of modinhas, poets, songwriters, and composers deliberately borrowed and adapted Brazilian and European musical and poetic elements, forms, and styles of the past to create an aura of nostalgia, to project national identity, and to add historical and narrative depth to the contexts in which they have been applied. The dissertation begins by tracing the development of the Brazilian modinha in late-eighteenth-century Portugal, with a focus on the adaptation of Neoclassical literary elements into a Brazilian poetic context in the modinhas of Domingos Caldas Barbosa. I then address a significant gap in modinha scholarship through providing a chronological narrative of the development of the genre in Rio de Janeiro throughout the nineteenth century while identifying the prominent musico-poetic influences, themes, and social and cultural contexts central to the modinha's cultivation. This is followed by case studies of the modinha in the twentieth century demonstrating processes of adaptation and recontextualization. These include: Catullo da Paixa̳o Cearense's adaptation of French literary models and choros into his modinhas during the Brazilian Belle e̹poque period, Heitor Villa-Lobos's use of modinhas to enhance nationalist representations in his art songs and orchestral works, and the selective cultivation of modinhas by bossa nova and MPB poets, composers, and songwriters to add sophistication, dramatic expression, and nostalgic narration to a diverse range of contexts and media. This dissertation emphasizes the musical and poetic analysis of modinhas, contextualizes the genre's relationship with Brazilian and European culture, and presents a history of this traditional song form in English.