Axé Bahia
Subtitle: the power of art in an Afro-Brazilian metropolis
By: Patrick A. Polk, Roberto Conduru, Sabrina Gledhill, and Randal Johnson, editors ; with essays by Scott Alves Barton [and 17 others]
Contributors: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780990762652
Subjects: Cultural fusion and the arts; Civilization; Brazilian Art; Exhibitions; Ethnicity in art; African influences
Notes: "Published with the assistance of The Getty Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, "Have You Been to Bahia?"  -- Patrick A. Polk; title: Becoming the Black Rome: Bahia, Africa, and the African Atlantic  -- Cécile Fromont; title: The Slave Ship: Castro Alves and Hansen Bahia  -- Sabrina Gledhill; title: The Iemanjá Festival  -- Sabrina Gledhill; title: Candomblé: Making the Saint, Making History, and Making Spirited Things  -- J. Lorand Matory; title: Lavagem do Bonfim  -- Sabrina Gledhill; title: Adenor Gondim and the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte  -- Scott Alves Barton; title: To Have Axé, To Be Axé  -- Roger Sansi; title: Visiting the Forge of Ogum: The Iron Work of José Adário dos Santos  -- Lucas Marques; title: Art, Tradition, and Ancestry: The Wisdom of Tia Detinha  -- Vanda Machado; title: What Does the Baiana Really Have? The Baiana and Afro-Brazilian Identity  -- Heather Shirley; title: Bound in Beauty: Creole Jewely in Bahia  -- Sarah K. Chenault; title: Capoeiras of Bahia  -- Ana Paula Höfling; title: Reinventing Roots: From Athens to Africa in the Making of Salvador's Identity  -- Anadelia Romo; title: Jorge Amado and Friends  -- Randal Johnson; title: Seeking the Orixás in Brazilian Popular Music  -- Christopher Dunn; title: Afro-Revels: Notes on the Black Presence in Salvador da Bahia's Carnaval  -- Paulo Miguez; title: The Art of J. Cunha and his 'Códice' (Codex)  -- Jeri Bernadette Williams; title: Candomblé as Artistic Inspiration: Syncretic Approaches  -- Kimberly L. Cleveland; title: Caetano Dias  -- Roberto Conduru; title: Mário Cravo Neto's Literal and Metaphorical Bahia  -- Sabrina Gledhill and Roberto Conduru; title: Ayrson Heráclito  -- Robert Conduru; title: Confronting the World with Art, Beauty, and Axé  -- Roberto Conduru; title: Goya Lopes: Sentidos Afro-Baianos -- Sabrina Gledhill.