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Hearing Brazil : music and histories in Minas Gerais /

"Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation's slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Ge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grasse, Jonathon, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Calundú: "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.