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Let's Make Some Noise: Axe and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music - Couverture souple

Henry, Clarence Bernard

 
9781617033278: Let's Make Some Noise: Axe and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1617033278 ISBN 13 : 9781617033278
Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2012

Synopsis

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 been appropriated and reinvented in Brazilian popular music and culture. Featuring interviews with practitioners and local musicians, the book explains how many Brazilian popular music styles such as samba, bossa nova, samba-reggae, ijexá, and axé have musical and stylistic elements that stem from Afro-Brazilian religion. The book also discusses how young Afro-Brazilians combine Candomblé religious music with African American music such as blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk, and rap. Henry argues for the importance of axé as a unifying force tying together the secular and sacred Afro-Brazilian musical landscape. Clarence Bernard Henry is an independent scholar living in Newark, New Jersey. He has taught at the University of Kansas and his writing has appeared in Journal of Caribbean Studies, Journal of Latin American Lore, and other publications.

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À propos de l'auteur

Clarence Bernard Henry is an independent scholar living in Newark, New Jersey. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Caribbean Studies, the Journal of Latin American Lore, and other publications. He is author of Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music and Quincy Jones: His Life in Music, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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Éditeur
University Press of Mississippi
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1617033278
ISBN 13 
9781617033278
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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