Our vision of Brazilian Music, as a cultural form, is based on the approach of Contemporary Cultural Studies, which:
“avoids cutting the field of culture into high and low, or popular against elite. Such distinctions are difficult to maintain and generally serve as a front for normative aesthetic valuations and, often, a political program (i.e. either dismissing mass culture for high culture, or celebrating what is deemed "popular" while scorning "elitist" high culture). ” (Douglas Kellner)
Trying to say that a specific kind of music is not worthy of attention or value is the same as silencing the voices of and diminishing those groups or individuals related to them, and we don’t share this world view.
For this reason, we prefer a multicultural approach in evaluating music.
The expression used in this blog, to describe the content, i. e., “the best of Brazilian music”, means “the music that we like”. Thus, anybody can feel free to choose, comment, post, express his/her own likes on Brazilian music.
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