Forró and redemptive regionalism from the Brazilian northeast
Subtitle: popular music in a culture of migration
By: Jack A. Draper III
Series: Latin America -- v. 18
Publisher: Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781433110764
Subjects: Forró; History; Popular music; Regionalism in music; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From symbol to allegory; title: Saudade as diasporic affect; title: The rural-urban negative dialectic; title: Framing forró's perceptiveness; title: The synthetic urge; title: The synthetic urge and forró; title: The "changing same" and redemptive regionalism in the evolving popular musical form of forró.