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The Deepest Wounds
In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming--the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow. Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, whose home state was Pernambuco, observed, "Monoculture, slavery, and latifundia--but principally monoculture--they opened here, in the life, the landscape, and the character of our people, the ...
Beyond the Pale of Pity
The first of three volumes providing a historical and sociological study of the development of the modern death squads that have dominated Brazil's politics since the 1950s. Traces the origins of the down-directed, class violence, usually associated with the police, to the greed of 16th-century slaveowners. Much of the information comes from anonymous sources. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil
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
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Moradores de engenho
Examines the working conditions of the workers in the plantations of sugar cane.
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Brazilian Music
Demonstrates how the music of Brazil's northeast region fostered a complex and racially mixed hybrid culture.
