{"id":290,"date":"2020-12-10T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:58:53","slug":"self-discovery-in-brazilian-popular-musicmestre-ambrosio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/publications\/brazilian-popular-music-and-globalization\/self-discovery-in-brazilian-popular-musicmestre-ambrosio\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Discovery in Brazilian Popular Music:Mestre Ambr\u00f3sio"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Self-Discovery in Brazilian Popular Music:Mestre Ambr\u00f3sio<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Self-Discovery in Brazilian Popular Music:Mestre Ambr\u00f3sio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-10-at-2.00.23-PM.png\" alt=\"murphy\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Even as it moves to join the world beat circuit, building on its strong<br>\nregional following and growing national audience within Brazil, the<br>\nRecife-based band Mestre Ambr\u00f3sio is taking steps to maintain ties with the<br>\nrural performers whose music served as the inspiration for its novel blend<br>\nof rabeca-based forr\u00f3, cavalo-marinho, maracatu rural, and cantoria styles<br>\nwith rock. This paper describes Mestre Ambr\u00f3sio&#8217;s music and its continuing<br>\nassociation with rural performers, and discusses the relevance of this case<br>\nto larger debates about globalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Band photos by the author in Central Park, NY, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-290 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/masiba.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/masiba-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"masiba\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/maalves.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/maalves-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"maalves\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/mahelder.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/mahelder-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"mahelder\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/masibaand.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/masibaand-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"masibaand\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/mastage.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/files\/mastage-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"mastage\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the author<\/strong>: John Murphy is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Jazz Studies at North Texas State University, Denton. He was a Fulbright scholar in Recife 2000-2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Links<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/publications\/brazilian-popular-music-and-globalization\/brazilian-popular-music-and-globalization-contents\/\">Contents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/publications\/welcome-aboard-bem-vindos-a-bordo\/\">Main page<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"parent":195,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/616"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}