Title: Between nostalgia and apocalypse
Description: A close-to-the-ground account of musicians and dancers from Arcoverde, Pernambuco--a small city in the northeastern Brazilian backlands. The book's focus on samba de coco families, marked as bearers of tradition, and the band Cordel do Fogo Encantado, marketed as pop iconoclasts, offers a revealing portrait of performers engaged in new forms of cultural preservation during a post-dictatorship period of democratization and neoliberal reform.
Subjects: Sambas, Cordel do Fogo Encantado (Musical group), History and criticism, Popular music, History, Popular music, history and criticism, Music, brazilian, Social aspects
Places: Brazil, Pernambuco