Affect Affects

This afterword considers the thematic issue ‘The Affective Politics of Music in Latin America,’ published by the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. I begin by questioning the frame of Latin America as space of inquiry for understanding the rel…

‘We Feel Something’

On February 11, 1965, less than one year after the outset of the Brazilian military dictatorship, singer Maria Bethânia assumed one of the principal roles in the musical theater piece Opinião in Rio de Janeiro. Taking over for Nara Leão, …