The Dancing Ear: Popular Music between Swings and Cangotes

Abstract

This essay presents a theoretical analysis about the popular music listening. From the idea that the popular music is studied from an intellectual kind of listening, the essay invites the reader to think about other kinds of listening, which would be more related to the body and dance, offering a broader comprehension of different meanings of popular music. So, the essay aims to contribute to ethnographies of popular music and to its historical analysis.