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Brazilian Music: Northeastern Traditions and the Heartbeat of a Modern Nation
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Brazilian Music: Northeastern Traditions and the Heartbeat of a Modern Nation (World Music Series) Hardcover - 2005

by Crook, Larry


From the publisher

Written by a foremost expert in the field of Brazilian culture, this fascinating volume explores the music of Brazil's Northeast, gauging its historical and cultural importance within the nation's diverse culture. Based on the author's field and archival research over a fifteen year period, this fascinating handbook shows how the musical culture of northeast Brazil emerged and evolved, exploring the interrelated traditional musical styles that helped give the region--and ultimately the Brazilian nation--such a distinctive cultural identity.
Moving from broad comparative overviews to specific types of music, the book looks at the social contexts, performance practices, musical structures, and cultural meanings that lie behind the music and provides up-close encounters with contemporary musicians creating and maintaining the area's traditions. Additionally, the book examines the role of music and dance traditions in shaping racial identities in Brazil (blackness, whiteness, mulattoness). The accompanying CD, loaded with both commercial and field recordings, brings the book's ideas and discoveries vividly to life.

Details

  • Title Brazilian Music: Northeastern Traditions and the Heartbeat of a Modern Nation (World Music Series)
  • Author Crook, Larry
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher ABC-CLIO
  • Date 2005-09
  • ISBN 9781576072875

About the author

Larry Crook is associate professor of music and the co-director of the Center for World Arts at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.