02862nam 22005774a 450 991082713810332120200520144314.01-282-48519-997866124851901-60473-334-9(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 axe and the African roots of Brazilian popular music /Clarence Bernard Henry1st ed.Jackson 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 ase in Brazil -- From the sacred to the secular: popularizing candomble rhythms -- Axe 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 axe embodiment in Bahian carnival/ijexa -- Stylizing axe 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 influencesCandomble musicHistory and criticismPopular musicAfrican influences.Candomble musicHistory and criticism.781.64089/96981Henry Clarence Bernard1621104MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827138103321Let's make some noise4030837UNINA