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Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music

by Clarence Bernard Henry
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781617033278
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 26.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 368 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ethnomusicology

Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of �s�, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora. �s� is imagined as power and creative energy bestowed upon human beings by ancestral spirits acting as guardians. In Brazil, the West African Yoruba concept of �s� is known as ax� and has been reinvented, transmitted, and nurtured in Candombl�, an Afro-Brazilian religion that is practiced in Salvador, Bahia.

The author examines how the concepts of ax� and Candombl� religion have been appropriated and reinvented in Brazilian popular music and culture. Featuring interviews with practitioners and local musicians, the book explains how many Brazilian popular music styles such as samba, bossa nova, samba-reggae, ijex�, and ax� have musical and stylistic elements that stem from Afro-Brazilian religion. The book also discusses how young Afro-Brazilians combine Candombl� religious music with African American music such as blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk, and rap.

Henry argues for the importance of ax� as a unifying force tying together the secular and sacred Afro-Brazilian musical landscape.

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