Description: In Music and Cosmopolitanism, Cristina Magaldi examines music making in a past globalized world. This volume focuses on one city, Rio de Janeiro, and how it became part of a larger world through music and performance. Magaldi describes a process of creating connections beyond national borders, one that is familiar to contemporary city residents, but which was already dominant at the turn of the 20th century, as new technological developments led to alternative ways of making and experiencing music.
Review Quotes: ""In her lively and absorbing study of musical life in fin-de-siècle Rio de Janeiro, Cristina Magaldi reveals how, in the creation, performance and consumption of music, people were able to explore and appraise social and cultural ties with others, both local and distant. By adopting a cosmopolitan perspective on city experience, cultural transfer, and early modernity, she deepens our understanding of music history in global rather than narrowly national terms."" -- Derek B. Scott, author of Sounds of the Metropolis and co-editor of Confronting the National in the Musical Past
""An impressive panorama of the transnational and transcultural experiences that shaped the urban soundscape of Rio de Janeiro in the aftermath of monarchy and slavery. In a series of engaging case studies, Magaldi follows artists, communities, businesses, and specific musical works to make sense of the complex net of meanings that permeated the fragmented visions of modernity that emerged in this cosmopolitan city in the tropics."" -- Rogerio Budasz, Professor of Music, University of California--Riverside"..it is undeniable that Magaldi makes an important contribution to Brazilian cultural history. The work opens up new avenues of investigation and offers a highly pertinent reassessment of other facets of the fin-de-siècle artistic world of Rio de Janeiro." -- Daniel Poletti, Brésil(s)