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Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author’s field research during the past twenty years, the book describes and analyzes the social/historical contexts and contemporary musical practices of Afro-Brazilian religion, selected Carnival traditions, Bahia’s black cultural renaissance, the traditions of rural migrants, and currents in new popular music. Part One, Understanding Music in Brazil, presents important issues and topics that encompass all of Brazil, and provides a general survey of Brazil’s diverse musical landscape. Part Two, Creating Music in Brazil, presents historical trajectories and contemporary examples of Afro-Brazilian traditions, Carnival music, and northeastern popular music. Part Three, Focusing In, presents two case studies that explore the ground-level activities of contemporary musicians in Northeast Brazil and the ways in which they move between local, national, and international realms. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid musical examples that are discussed in the text
Demonstrates how the music of Brazil's northeast region fostered a complex and racially mixed hybrid culture.
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Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters' mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil's first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the pass...
O livro analisa a vida intelectual natalense, investigando a dinâmica cultural constituída durante os anos de 1889 a 1930, época de intensificação do movimento intelectual na capital norte-rio-grandense.
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O livro encontra-se dividido em três capítulos. O primeiro avalia a produção da constituição de 1891 e as emendas que garantiram a resolução das questões de limites, a partir da subordinação das assembleias estaduais ao legislativo federal. O segundo capítulo discute o processo de judicialização das ações no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), a repulsa inicial e os meios que os juristas encontraram de enquadrar essas questões no Judiciário, seja para resolvê-las ou barrá-las, assim como analisa de que modo esse processo de judicialização acabou metamorfoseando a justiça oficial, em particular por meios do arbitramento. O terceiro e último capítulo analisa o abandono dos meios políticos e jurídicos oficiais para dirimir os litígios e o uso de negociações políticas por meio de conferências intermediadas pelo Executivo Nacional.