Let's make some noise : axe and the African roots of Brazilian popular music / Clarence Bernard Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Clarence Bernard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Brazil--African influences.

Popular music.

Candomblé music--History and criticism.

Candomblé music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.

ISBN:

9786612485190

9781604733341

1604733349

OCLC:

317404608