River of tears country music, memory, and modernity in Brazil

A study of caipira, Brazil's most indigenous country music, and the commodification of the rural in Brazilian popular culture.;Rural music, intimacy, and memory -- What counts as "country"? rural performativity in the twentieth century -- Country brothers : kinship as chronotope -- Mixture, sadness, and intimacy in the Brazilian musical field -- Hick dialogics : experiencing the play of rural genres -- Teleologies of rural disappearance : interpreting rural music -- Digital droplets and analogue flames : the circulatory matrices of Brazilian country -- Producing rural locality -- Hicks of the world : the country cosmopolitan -- Postauthoritarian memory and rurality.