Focus
Subtitle: Music of northeast Brazil
By: Larry Crook.
Contributors: Crook, Larry.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Focus on world music
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415960663; 9780415960656; 9780203886526
Subjects: Popular music -- Brazil -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Brazil, Northeast -- History and criticism
Other titles: Music of northeast Brazil
Notes: Previous ed.: Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, c2005, under title: Brazilian music.

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding music in Brazil. Brazil : a country divided ; Brazilian music in focus : a history of hybridity; title: Creating music in Brazil. Afro-Brazilian musical traditions : candomblé, afoxé, and maracatu ; Making multiracial carnival music : the frevo ; Inventing northeastern popular music for the nation; title: Focusing in : intimate portraits and the reinvention of Brazilian music. Two case studies from the northeast : banda de pífanos and cantoria de viola ; Reinventing Africa and remixing hybridity : blocos afro and mangue beat.