Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan) Pro Audio with each musician enjoying equal

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Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan) Pro Audio with each musician enjoying equalEthnography explores political activism of carnival brass bands in Brazil Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the rise in the 2000s to one beset by various crises in the 2010s. Though predominantly middle class, neofanfarristas have creatively adapted the critical theories of carnival to militate for a more