The development of Brazil's rich musical traditions is examined in respect to structural factors that have affected that development. The cultural industry in Brazil has not yet reached the “mass culture” point. The cultural industry produces a society whose homogeneity is perceptible through a mass culture; if this means that all previous traits characteristic of different cultural contributions are amlgamated and unidentifiable, then the mass culture point is not yet realized in Brazil, because huge income differences create a society that is highly stratified in consumption.
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