Houston,Elsie (Author) and Araujo,Emanoel (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
São Paulo: Negras Memórias
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
32 p, Catalog from the exhibition, Negras Memórias, Memórias de Negros. "Outubro 2003"--Colophon. Disc offers a selection of 14 tracks recorded from 1930, all presenting themes and folk rhythms and songs.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
204 p, This work describes how slaves, mariners and merchants brought African music from Angola and the ports of East Africa to Latin America, and to Brazil in particular
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Describes and analyzes the social/historical contexts and contemporary musical practices of Afro-Brazilian religion, selected Carnival traditions, Bahia’s black cultural renaissance, the traditions of rural migrants, and currents in new popular music.
Weintraub,Andrew Noah (Editor) and Yung,Bell (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
313 p., Global and local perspectives on the meaning and significance of cultural rights through music. Includes Javier F. León's "National patrimony and cultural policy: the case of the Afroperuvian cajón" and Silvia Ramos and Ana María Ochoa's "Music and human rights: the Afroreggae cultural group and the youth from the favelas as responses to violence in Brazil"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
116 p, Very few references to the participation of black women in Brazilian classical music throughout history. Sergio Bittencourt-Sampaio analyzes the career of two black performers rare success in this area - Joaquina Maria da Conceição Lapa (Lapinha) and Camila Maria da Conceição. These two precursors, distanced by exactly one century were women of remarkable determination and achieved wide recognition through talent, amid a slave and patriarchal society.
