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Focus : music of northeast Brazil
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Focus : music of northeast Brazil

Author: Larry Crook
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series: Focus on world music.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Larry Crook
ISBN: 9780415960663 0415960665 9780415960656 0415960657 9780203886526 0203886526
OCLC Number: 231834355
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Brazilian music : northeastern traditions and the heartbeat of a modern nation. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Description: xix, 284 p. : ill., map, music ; 25 cm. + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
Contents: Understanding music in Brazil. Brazil : a country divided ; Brazilian music in focus : a history of hybridity -- Creating music in Brazil. Afro-Brazilian musical traditions : candomblé, afoxé, and maracatu ; Making multiracial carnival music : the frevo ; Inventing northeastern popular music for the nation -- Focusing in : intimate portraits and the reinvention of Brazilian music. Two case studies from the northeast : banda de pífanos and cantoria de viola ; Reinventing Africa and remixing hybridity : blocos afro and mangue beat. Appendix, Musical examples on the compact disc: p. 243-258.
Series Title: Focus on world music.
Other Titles: Music of northeast Brazil
Responsibility: Larry Crook.

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