Hearing Brazil
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Hearing Brazil

Music and Histories in Minas Gerais

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Hearing Brazil

Music and Histories in Minas Gerais

About this book

Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation's slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Gerais by exploring the intersections of its history, music, and culture.Instruments, genres, social functions, and historical accounts are woven together to form a tapestry revealing a cultural territory's development. The deep pool of Brazilian scholarship referenced in the book, with original translations by the author, cites over two hundred Portuguese-language publications focusing on Minas Gerais. This research was augmented by fieldwork, observations, and interviews completed over a twenty-five-year period and includes original photographs, many taken by the author. Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais surveys the colonial past, the vast hinterland countryside, and the modern, twenty-first-century state capital of Belo Horizonte, the metropolitan region of which is today home to over six million. Diverse legacies are examined, including an Afro-Brazilian heritage, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century liturgical music of the region's "Minas Baroque, " the instrument known as the viola, a musical profile of Belo Horizonte, and a study of the regionalist themes developed by the popular music collective the Clube da Esquina (Corner Club) led by Milton Nascimento with roots in the 1960s. Hearing Brazil champions the notion that Brazil's unique role in the world is further illustrated by regionalist studies presenting details of musical culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Hearing Brazil
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1 Introduction
  8. Chapter 2 Calundú: “Winds of Divination”
  9. Chapter 3 Vissungo’s “Songs of the Earth”: A Vanishing Tradition of the Serro Frio
  10. Chapter 4 Sacred and Fine Art Music of the Colonial and Imperial Periods
  11. Chapter 5 Batuque
  12. Chapter 6 Congado in Minas Gerais: The Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary and the Election of a Black King
  13. Chapter 7 The Viola in Minas Gerais: Rural Dreams and Urban Realities
  14. Chapter 8 Belo Horizonte Nocturne: Subtropical Modernism, 1894–1960
  15. Chapter 9 Regionalist Themes in the Songs of the Corner Club
  16. Conclusion
  17. Appendix 1
  18. Appendix 2 Luso-African Roots of Congado Mineiro Heritage: Black Catholicism and the Brotherhood of the Rosary
  19. Notes
  20. Works Cited
  21. About the Author