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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813931603321

Autore

Fryer Peter

Titolo

Rhythms of resistance [[electronic resource] ] : African musical heritage in Brazil / / Peter Fryer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pluto, 2000

ISBN

0-585-42554-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 267 p. : ill., maps

Disciplina

780.981

Soggetti

Music - Brazil - African influences

Black people - Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Fgures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Challenge singing and the Atlantic cultural triangle -- The African presence in Brazil -- The African cultural heritage in Brazil -- 'Neo- African' music in Brazil -- The sources of Brazil's 'neo-African' music -- 1. The Heritage of Nigeria and Benin: Music for Worship -- African- derived religions in Brazil -- African- Brazilian religious music -- Candomblé and carnival -- 2. The Angolan Heritage: Capoeira and Berimbau -- Training for resistance -- African prototypes of the berimbau -- The berimbau in Brazil -- 3. The 'Angola Warble': Street Cries and Worksongs -- The cities -- The countryside -- The songs of the miners -- 4. Brazil's Dramatic Dances -- Lay brotherhoods and danced processions -- Coronation ceremonies -- Palmares and the Quilombo -- The Moçambique -- Bumba-meu-boi and the power of satire -- Cambinda : a festival of liberation -- 5. Three Vanished Instruments -- The lamellophone ( marimba) -- The pluriarc ( compound bow- lute) -- The xylophone ( marimba) -- 6. The African Dance Heritage -- African dance in Brazil -- Batuque and the rural samba -- Samba: the word -- Jongo and caxambu -- The coco -- The calango -- 7. Brazil's Atlantic Dances -- The Atlantic dance tradition -- The lundu: Brazil's first national dance -- The fofa that came from Bahia -- The fado in Brazil -- 8. The Emergence of Brazilian Popular Music -- Brazil's slave orchestras -- How Brazilian popular music arose -- The modinha and the sung lundu -- The African heritage in Brazilian



popular music -- 9. Maxixe and Modern Samba -- Appendix A. Continuity and Change in the Music of the Kongo- Angola Culture Area -- Appendix B. African Musical Instruments in Brazil -- Appendix C. The Brazilian Musical Heritage in Nigeria and Benin -- Appendix D. The Music and Dance of Cape Verde.

Appendix E. Relacao da fofa que veya agora da Bahia: Extract -- Description -- Extract -- Discography -- Brazil -- Africa ( including Cape Verde) -- Other areas -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Discography -- Index -- Abel, Clarke 79 -- Abel, Clarke, -- 6 -- 78 -- accent, off-beat -- 21 -- 148 -- accordion -- 5 -- 107 -- 125 -- 179-81 passim -- 183 -- 185 -- 186 -- acculturation -- 2 -- 11 -- 22 -- 56 -- 58-60 -- 91 -- 122 -- 136 -- 139 -- 148 -- 152 -- 159-60 -- adarrum rhythm -- 20 -- 178 -- advertisements referring to black musicians -- 80 -- 136 -- afoxés [semi-religious carnival groups] -- 24 -- 26 -- 71 -- 204 n.67 -- Africa -- animal and bird dances,  30 -- animal and bird dances,  94 -- religious ceremonies,  19 -- African dances in Brazil -- attempts to suppress,  23-4 -- spinning figures,  23 -- spinning figures,  48 -- spinning figures,  76 -- African-Brazilian religions -- music,  18-26 -- music,  27 -- police persecution,  13 -- police persecution,  39 -- police persecution,  199 n.6 -- syncretism with Roman Catholicism  13-14 -- syncretism with Roman Catholicism  13-14 -- syncretism with Roman Catholicism  199-200 n.8 -- syncretism with Roman Catholicism  199-200 n.8 -- Africans in Brazil -- abolition of slavery  7 -- abolition of slavery  23 -- abolition of slavery  38 -- abolition of slavery  43 -- abolition of slavery  54 -- abolition of slavery  77 -- abolition of slavery  83 -- abolition of slavery  104-6 passim -- and lay brotherhoods,  61-2 -- and lay brotherhoods,  65 -- and lay brotherhoods,  66 -- artisans,  55 -- artisans,  56 -- coronation ceremonies,  61-8 -- coronation ceremonies,  96 -- coronation ceremonies,  97 -- distribution pattern,  7-8 -- freedom fighters,  27.

freedom fighters,  30 -- from Kongo and Angola,  5 -- from Kongo and Angola,  7 -- from Kongo and Angola,  12 -- fugitive slaves,  51 -- fugitive slaves,  68-71 -- insurrections,  preparation for -- insurrections,  9 -- insurrections,  27 -- insurrections,  68 -- insurrections,  87 -- insurrections,  167 -- languages,  42-3 -- languages,  50 -- languages,  52 -- languages,  57 -- languages,  58 -- languages,  60 -- languages,  95 -- languages,  96 -- languages,  106 -- lay brotherhoods,  55-62 -- lay brotherhoods,  65 -- lay brotherhoods,  66 -- lay brotherhoods,  73 -- lay brotherhoods,  80 -- length of working day,  50 -- liberated areas,  69 -- mistreatment,  51 -- mistreatment,  68 -- musical instruments,  57 -- musical instruments,  62 -- musical instruments,  63 -- musical skills,  134-6 -- nações, in Recife 66 -- nações,  7 -- nações,  13 -- nações,  44 -- nações,  56 -- nações,  66 -- nações,  77 -- nações,  96 -- negros de ganha,  139 -- participation in dominant culture,  148 -- Prince Regent's black guard,  43 -- protest songs,  see also riddle songs -- protest songs,  43 -- protest songs,  50-1 -- protest songs,  52-4 -- punishments,  68 -- religious processions,  55 -- religious processions,  56 -- religious processions,  60-1 -- religious processions,  66-7 -- resistance,  68-72 -- resistance,  87 -- riddle songs,  9-10 -- riddle songs,  50-1 -- riddle songs,  104 -- riddle songs,  105 -- sexual relations with Portuguese settlers,  121-2 -- singing on disembarkation,  40 -- slave orchestras and choirs,  2 -- slave orchestras and choirs,  134-6 -- slave orchestras and choirs,  140 -- use of Portuguese language,  41-2 -- worksongs and street



cries,  40-54 -- Africans in Mexico 112 -- Africans in Portugal -- 2 -- 3 -- 110 -- Africans in Spain -- 109 -- 110 -- 137 -- afro-primitivo [drumming patterns] 25 -- Agassiz, Elizabeth and Louis.

120 -- 122 -- Aig-Imoukhede, Frank -- 171 -- quoted,  172 -- Aimard, Gustave 151 -- alabê [master drummer] -- 19 -- 20 -- Alagoas -- 7 -- 14 -- 55 -- 67 -- 69 -- 71 -- 72 -- 76 -- 106 -- 117 -- 179 -- 182 -- 221 n.21 -- Alagoas, Toninho de 180 -- Alemão, François Freire -- 125 -- 132-3 -- Alfama -- 3 -- 127 -- 132 -- Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, quoted -- 82 -- 90 -- 134-5 -- 149 -- 151 -- 166-8 -- Almeida, Manuel Antônio de 131-2 -- Almeida, Mauro de -- 156 -- 180 -- 185 -- Almeida, Renato -- quoted,  123 -- xiii,  50 -- xiii,  143 -- xiii,  165 -- Alvarenga, Oneyda -- xiii -- 67-8 -- Alvares d'Almada, André 111 -- Alves, Francisco -- 157 -- 183 -- 185 -- Amado, Jorge 71 -- Amazonas -- 7 -- 15 -- 17 -- 21 -- 76 -- 95 -- 163 -- Amazônia -- 178-9 -- 221 n.21 -- Amerindian deities and religions 15-17 passim -- Amerindians -- 118 -- Guaraní,  39 -- in Brazil,  5 -- in Brazil,  9 -- in Brazil,  70 -- in Brazil,  72-5 passim -- in Brazil,  136 -- in Brazil,  168 -- in Brazil,  182-5 passim -- in Brazil,  202 n.26 -- in Brazil,  220 n.2 -- in Brazil,  221 n.21 -- in Mexico,  112 -- in Paraguay,  39 -- use of berimbau,  39 -- Anatómico Jocoso 132 -- Anderson, Robert Nelson 72 -- Andrade, Mário de -- xiii -- 10 -- 55 -- 102 -- 107 -- 125 -- 129 -- 141 -- 155-6 -- 165 -- 180 -- Andrews, Christopher Columbus 150 -- Angola [berimbau pattern] -- 38-9 -- 39 -- Angola [nação] 7 -- Angola [state] -- 3 -- 5 -- 7 -- 11 -- 14 -- 17 -- 18 -- 26 -- 27 -- 29-30 -- 30 -- 83 -- 103 -- 104 -- 121 -- 134 -- 138 -- 157 -- Ambriz blacks,  97 -- arrival of Portuguese,  27 -- arrival of Portuguese,  158 -- Baluba,  37 -- Bena Luluwa,  79 -- Benguela,  3 -- Benguela,  7 -- Benguela,  34 -- Benguela,  97 -- Cabinda,  77 -- dances,  96 -- dances,  97-8 -- dances,  119 -- defined,  158 -- Handa,  32-3 -- initiation ceremonies,  28 -- initiation ceremonies,  30.

languages,  see alsoKimbundu language -- languages,  Kikongo language -- languages,  Ngangela language -- languages,  Umbundu language -- languages,  57 -- languages,  66 -- Libolo,  37 -- Luanda,  3 -- Luanda,  30 -- Luanda,  67 -- Luanda,  97 -- Luanda,  98 -- Luanda,  158 -- Luanda,  159 -- Lunda,  33-4 -- Lunda,  37 -- Lunda,  74 -- Lunda,  159 -- Mbamba,  97 -- Mbangala,  34 -- Mbundu,  67 -- military bands,  159 -- Mucope,  ngolo zebra dance -- Mucope,  30 -- Mucope,  30 -- Musurongo,  97 -- Muílas,  206 n.29 -- nganga a nzumbi,  70 -- Ngumbi,  28 -- Ngumbi,  32-3 -- Ovimbundu [Mbunda],  33 -- Ovimbundu [Mbunda],  34 -- Ovimbundu [Mbunda],  158 -- Portuguese musical influence,  138 -- Portuguese musical influence,  158 -- Portuguese musical influence,  159 -- Portuguese travellers' accounts of music,  111 -- Shinje,  34 -- Sorongo,  97 -- Tshokwe [or Chokwe],  187 -- Tshokwe [or Chokwe],  187 -- Tshokwe [or Chokwe],  239 n.27 -- Tshokwe [or Chokwe],  239 n.27 -- Anjos, Mestre Paulo dos 39 -- Anthony, St 14 -- Ara Ketu [bloco afro] 24 -- Arabs -- in Iberian peninsula,  1 -- in Iberian peninsula,  2 -- in Iberian peninsula,  4 -- in Portugal,  2 -- in Portugal,  4 -- literary debates,  2 -- literary debates,  192 n.8 -- musical instruments,  2 -- musical instruments,  2 -- musical instruments,  4 -- musical instruments,  4 -- musical instruments,  10 -- musical instruments,  10 -- Aragão, José de Sousa 147 -- Araújo, Alceu Maynard 73 -- Araújo, Damião Barbosa de 146 -- Arcos, Count of 96 -- Aretino, Pietro -- 123 -- 228 n.678 -- Argentina -- cueca,  109 -- habanera,  237 n.5 -- tango,  154 -- tango,  154 -- tango,  155 -- tango,  155 -- Armandinho [Salgado Armando Freire] 189 -- Assier, Adolphe d' 90-1



-- astrology 17 -- Atilla, The 190 -- Atlantic cultural triangle -- musical melting pots,  137 -- role of black seafarers,  138 -- xi,  3.

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Sommario/riassunto

An absorbing account of the influence of African rhythms on contemporary black Brazilian music and the development of music world wide.