02885nam 22005654a 450 991078283790332120230721005251.01-282-48519-997866124851901-60473-334-9(CKB)1000000000721961(EBL)515604(OCoLC)317404608(SSID)ssj0000191439(PQKBManifestationID)11183603(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191439(PQKBWorkID)10183719(PQKB)10546081(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206367(MiAaPQ)EBC515604(Au-PeEL)EBL515604(CaPaEBR)ebr10282573(EXLCZ)99100000000072196120080130d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLet's make some noise[electronic resource] axé and the African roots of Brazilian popular music /Clarence Bernard HenryJackson University Press of Mississippic20081 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-082-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.Sacred/secular influences: the reinvention of West African àsé in Brazil -- From the sacred to the secular: popularizing candomblé rhythms -- Axé embodiment in Brazilian popular music: sacred themes, imagery, and symbols -- The sacred/secular popularity of drums and drummers -- Secular impulses: dancing to the beats of different drummers -- Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm proud: popular music and axé embodiment in Bahian carnival/ijexá -- Stylizing axé as Brazilian popular music.Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of àsé, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora. Àsé is imagined as power and creative energy bestowed upon human beings by ancestral spirits acting as guardians. In Brazil, the West African Yoruba concept of àsé is known as axé and has been reinvented, transmitted, and nurtured in Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion that is practiced in Salvador, Bahia. The author examines how the concepts of axé and Candomblé religion have beenPopular musicBrazilAfrican influencesCandomblé musicHistory and criticismPopular musicAfrican influences.Candomblé musicHistory and criticism.781.64089/96981Henry Clarence Bernard1475334MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782837903321Let's make some noise3849581UNINA