Rhythms of resistance : African musical heritage in Brazil / Peter Fryer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fryer, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Brazil--African influences.

Music.

Black people--Brazil.

Black people.

Physical Description:

xiv, 267 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An absorbing account of the influence of African rhythms on contemporary black Brazilian music and the development of music world wide.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Maps

List of Fgures

Preface

Introduction

Challenge singing and the Atlantic cultural triangle

The African presence in Brazil

The African cultural heritage in Brazil

'Neo- African' music in Brazil

The sources of Brazil's 'neo-African' music

1. The Heritage of Nigeria and Benin: Music for Worship

African- derived religions in Brazil

African- Brazilian religious music

Candomblé and carnival

2. The Angolan Heritage: Capoeira and Berimbau

Training for resistance

African prototypes of the berimbau

The berimbau in Brazil

3. The 'Angola Warble': Street Cries and Worksongs

The cities

The countryside

The songs of the miners

4. Brazil's Dramatic Dances

Lay brotherhoods and danced processions

Coronation ceremonies

Palmares and the Quilombo

The Moçambique

Bumba-meu-boi and the power of satire

Cambinda : a festival of liberation

5. Three Vanished Instruments

The lamellophone ( marimba)

The pluriarc ( compound bow- lute)

The xylophone ( marimba)

6. The African Dance Heritage

African dance in Brazil

Batuque and the rural samba

Samba: the word

Jongo and caxambu

The coco

The calango

7. Brazil's Atlantic Dances

The Atlantic dance tradition

The lundu: Brazil's first national dance

The fofa that came from Bahia

The fado in Brazil

8. The Emergence of Brazilian Popular Music

Brazil's slave orchestras

How Brazilian popular music arose

The modinha and the sung lundu

The African heritage in Brazilian popular music

9. Maxixe and Modern Samba

Appendix A. Continuity and Change in the Music of the Kongo- Angola Culture Area

Appendix B. African Musical Instruments in Brazil

Appendix C. The Brazilian Musical Heritage in Nigeria and Benin

Appendix D. The Music and Dance of Cape Verde.

Appendix E. Relacao da fofa que veya agora da Bahia: Extract

Description

Extract

Discography

Brazil

Africa ( including Cape Verde)

Other areas

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Index

Abel, Clarke 79

Abel, Clarke,

6

78

accent, off-beat

21

148

accordion

5

107

125

179-81 passim

183

185

186

acculturation

2

11

22

56

58-60

91

122

136

139

152

159-60

adarrum rhythm

20

178

advertisements referring to black musicians

80

afoxés [semi-religious carnival groups]

24

26

71

204 n.67

Africa

animal and bird dances, 30

animal and bird dances, 94

religious ceremonies, 19

African dances in Brazil

attempts to suppress, 23-4

spinning figures, 23

spinning figures, 48

spinning figures, 76

African-Brazilian religions

music, 18-26

music, 27

police persecution, 13

police persecution, 39

police persecution, 199 n.6

syncretism with Roman Catholicism 13-14

syncretism with Roman Catholicism 199-200 n.8

Africans in Brazil

abolition of slavery 7

abolition of slavery 23

abolition of slavery 38

abolition of slavery 43

abolition of slavery 54

abolition of slavery 77

abolition of slavery 83

abolition of slavery 104-6 passim

and lay brotherhoods, 61-2

and lay brotherhoods, 65

and lay brotherhoods, 66

artisans, 55

artisans, 56

coronation ceremonies, 61-8

coronation ceremonies, 96

coronation ceremonies, 97

distribution pattern, 7-8

freedom fighters, 27.

freedom fighters, 30

from Kongo and Angola, 5

from Kongo and Angola, 7

from Kongo and Angola, 12

fugitive slaves, 51

fugitive slaves, 68-71

insurrections, preparation for

insurrections, 9

insurrections, 27

insurrections, 68

insurrections, 87

insurrections, 167

languages, 42-3

languages, 50

languages, 52

languages, 57

languages, 58

languages, 60

languages, 95

languages, 96

languages, 106

lay brotherhoods, 55-62

lay brotherhoods, 65

lay brotherhoods, 66

lay brotherhoods, 73

lay brotherhoods, 80

length of working day, 50

liberated areas, 69

mistreatment, 51

mistreatment, 68

musical instruments, 57

musical instruments, 62

musical instruments, 63

musical skills, 134-6

nações, in Recife 66

nações, 7

nações, 13

nações, 44

nações, 56

nações, 66

nações, 77

nações, 96

negros de ganha, 139

participation in dominant culture, 148

Prince Regent's black guard, 43

protest songs, see also riddle songs

protest songs, 43

protest songs, 50-1

protest songs, 52-4

punishments, 68

religious processions, 55

religious processions, 56

religious processions, 60-1

religious processions, 66-7

resistance, 68-72

resistance, 87

riddle songs, 9-10

riddle songs, 50-1

riddle songs, 104

riddle songs, 105

sexual relations with Portuguese settlers, 121-2

singing on disembarkation, 40

slave orchestras and choirs, 2

slave orchestras and choirs, 134-6

slave orchestras and choirs, 140

use of Portuguese language, 41-2

worksongs and street cries, 40-54

Africans in Mexico 112

Africans in Portugal

3

110

Africans in Spain

109

137

afro-primitivo [drumming patterns] 25

Agassiz, Elizabeth and Louis.

120

Aig-Imoukhede, Frank

171

quoted, 172

Aimard, Gustave 151

alabê [master drummer]

19

Alagoas

7

14

55

67

69

72

76

106

117

179

182

221 n.21

Alagoas, Toninho de 180

Alemão, François Freire

132-3

Alfama

127

132

Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, quoted

82

90

134-5

149

151

166-8

Almeida, Manuel Antônio de 131-2

Almeida, Mauro de

156

180

Almeida, Renato

quoted, 123

xiii, 50

xiii, 143

xiii, 165

Alvarenga, Oneyda

xiii

67-8

Alvares d'Almada, André 111

Alves, Francisco

157

Amado, Jorge 71

Amazonas

15

17

95

163

Amazônia

178-9

Amerindian deities and religions 15-17 passim

Amerindians

118

Guaraní, 39

in Brazil, 5

in Brazil, 9

in Brazil, 70

in Brazil, 72-5 passim

in Brazil, 136

in Brazil, 168

in Brazil, 182-5 passim

in Brazil, 202 n.26

in Brazil, 220 n.2

in Brazil, 221 n.21

in Mexico, 112

in Paraguay, 39

use of berimbau, 39

Anatómico Jocoso 132

Anderson, Robert Nelson 72

Andrade, Mário de

10

102

129

141

155-6

165

Andrews, Christopher Columbus 150

Angola [berimbau pattern]

38-9

39

Angola [nação] 7

Angola [state]

18

27

29-30

30

83

103

104

121

134

138

Ambriz blacks, 97

arrival of Portuguese, 27

arrival of Portuguese, 158

Baluba, 37

Bena Luluwa, 79

Benguela, 3

Benguela, 7

Benguela, 34

Benguela, 97

Cabinda, 77

dances, 96

dances, 97-8

dances, 119

defined, 158

Handa, 32-3

initiation ceremonies, 28

initiation ceremonies, 30.

languages, see alsoKimbundu language

languages, Kikongo language

languages, Ngangela language

languages, Umbundu language

languages, 66

Libolo, 37

Luanda, 3

Luanda, 30

Luanda, 67

Luanda, 97

Luanda, 98

Luanda, 158

Luanda, 159

Lunda, 33-4

Lunda, 37

Lunda, 74

Lunda, 159

Mbamba, 97

Mbangala, 34

Mbundu, 67

military bands, 159

Mucope, ngolo zebra dance

Mucope, 30

Musurongo, 97

Muílas, 206 n.29

nganga a nzumbi, 70

Ngumbi, 28

Ngumbi, 32-3

Ovimbundu [Mbunda], 33

Ovimbundu [Mbunda], 34

Ovimbundu [Mbunda], 158

Portuguese musical influence, 138

Portuguese musical influence, 158

Portuguese musical influence, 159

Portuguese travellers' accounts of music, 111

Shinje, 34

Sorongo, 97

Tshokwe [or Chokwe], 187

Tshokwe [or Chokwe], 239 n.27

Anjos, Mestre Paulo dos 39

Anthony, St 14

Ara Ketu [bloco afro] 24

Arabs

in Iberian peninsula, 1

in Iberian peninsula, 2

in Iberian peninsula, 4

in Portugal, 2

in Portugal, 4

literary debates, 2

literary debates, 192 n.8

musical instruments, 2

musical instruments, 4

musical instruments, 10

Aragão, José de Sousa 147

Araújo, Alceu Maynard 73

Araújo, Damião Barbosa de 146

Arcos, Count of 96

Aretino, Pietro

123

228 n.678

Argentina

cueca, 109

habanera, 237 n.5

tango, 154

tango, 155

Armandinho [Salgado Armando Freire] 189

Assier, Adolphe d' 90-1

astrology 17

Atilla, The 190

Atlantic cultural triangle

musical melting pots, 137

role of black seafarers, 138

xi, 3.

xi, 11.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849645362

1849645361

9780585425542

058542554X

OCLC:

50988530