Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781032042374 / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str.

Barbara Alge

Opis

Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil: Sounding Portugueseness is a study of the musical legacy of the 18th century Brazilian gold rush that integrates ethnographic research of the main genres of former mining communities in Brazil -- from liturgical music in the style of European art music to Afro-Brazilian musical expressions.

Spis treści

Introduction

1 - Festivals and Music as Civilizing Forces in Colonial Minas

2 - History as Memory, Heritage, and Brand in Morro Vermelho

3 - Sounding the Sacred and Civilized

4 - Sounding the Afro-Brazilian Resistance

5- Conclusion: Sounding Portugueseness in Southeast Brazil

 

 

O autorze

Barbara Alge is Professor in Ethnomusicology at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany.