Focus : Music of northeast Brazil /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Focus on world music.
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding music in Brazil. Brazil : a country divided ; Brazilian music in focus : a history of hybridity
- Creating music in Brazil. Afro-Brazilian musical traditions : candomblé, afoxé, and maracatu ; Making multiracial carnival music : the frevo ; Inventing northeastern popular music for the nation
- Focusing in : intimate portraits and the reinvention of Brazilian music. Two case studies from the northeast : banda de pífanos and cantoria de viola ; Reinventing Africa and remixing hybridity : blocos afro and mangue beat.