Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CalunduÌ?: "Winds of divination"
  • Vissungo's "Songs of the earth": a vanishing tradition of the Serro Frio
  • Sacred and fine art music of the Colonial and Imperial periods
  • Batuque
  • Congado in Minas Gerais: the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary and the election of a black king
  • The viola in Minas Gerais: rural dreams and urban realities
  • Belo Horizonte nocturne: subtropical modernism, 1894-1960
  • Regionalist themes in the songs of the Corner Club
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2: Luso-African Roots of Congado Mineiro Heritage: Black Catholicism and the brotherhood of the Rosary
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.