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    86. Musical boundary-work: Ethnomusicology, symbolic boundary studies, and music in the Afro-Gaucho religious community of southern Brazil

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gidal,Marc Meistrich, (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter; Winter, 2014
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Ethnomusicology: Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology
    Journal Title Details:
    58(1) : 83-109
    Notes:
    Combines ethnomusicology and symbolic boundary theory to explain musical boundary-work: the creation, interpretation, and use of music to reinforce, bridge, or reshape symbolic boundaries for social, political, spiritual, or other purposes. The multi-faith and multi-ethnic Afrogaucho religious community of metropolitan Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, serves as the case study, because practitioners use musical liturgy to combine and segregate the Batuque, Umbanda, and Quimbanda religions and their denominations. This essay introduces the community, highlighting ethnoracial identity politics, and describes processes of musical boundary-work within the community, focusing on local concepts of crossing and purity.

    98. The Negroes of Brazil

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Herskovits,Melville J. (Author) and Herskovits,Frances S. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    December, 1942
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Yale Review
    Journal Title Details:
    32 : 263-279

    100. 'Vamo fazê maravilha!' Avaliação estético-ritual das performances do Reinado pelos congadeiros

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lucas,Glaura, (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July; July-Dec, 2011
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Per musi: Revista acadêmica de música
    Journal Title Details:
    24 : 62-66
    Notes:
    Examines the meanings of the marvelous in the context of the Afro-Brazilian ritual called the Reinado de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, according to the way it is applied in the song lyrics and in participants’ verbal discourses. Analyses were based on participants’ perspectives about the origin and history of their religious tradition, which is based on their enslaved ancestors’ experiences of pain. Those facts and events still highlight the sense of belonging to this tradition nowadays and make their performative acts meaningful, significant, and thus wonderful., unedited non–English abstract received by RILM] Os significados da ‘maravilha’ no contexto do Reinado de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, tal como o termo é utilizado nos cantos e nas elaborações discursivas dos congadeiros, são aqui abordados a partir da perspectiva desses participantes sobre a origem e o percurso histórico de sua tradição religiosa, calcada na experiencia da dor de seus ancestrais escravizados. Tais fatos e eventos ainda motivam o pertencimento a essa tradição no presente e preenchem de sentido, de significância e, consequentemente, de maravilha as ações performáticas atuais.