Rhythms of Resistance

Maps
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Challenge Singing and the Atlantic Cultural Triangle; The African Presence in Brazil; The African Cultural Heritage in Brazil; 'Neo-African' Music in Brazil; Acculturated Music in Brazil; The Sources of Brazil's 'Neo-African' Music
The Heritage of Nigeria and Benin: Music for Worship: African-Derived Religions in Brazil
African-Brazilian Religious Music; Candomble and Carnival
The Angolan Heritage: Capoeira and Berimbau: Training for Resistance; African Prototypes of the Berimbau; The Berimbau in Brazil
The 'Angola Warble': Street Cries and Worksongs: The Cities; The Countryside; The Songs of the Miners
Brazil's Dramatic Dances: Lay Brotherhoods and dances Processions; Coronation Ceremonies; Palmares and the Quilombo; The Cucumbi, The Mocambique, Bumba-meu-boi and the Power of Satire; Cambinda:A Festival of Liberation
Three Vanished Instruments: The Lamellophone (Marimba); The Pluriarc (Compound Bow-Lute); The Xylophone (Marimba)
The African Dance Heritage: The African Dance Heritage: African Dance in Brazil; Batuque and Rural Samba
Samba: The Word; Jongo and Caxambu; The Coco; The Calango
Brazil's Atlantic Dances: The Atlantic Dance Tradition; The Lundu: Brazil's First National Dance; The Fofai That Came from Bahia; The Fado in Brazil
The Emergence of Brazillian Popular Music: Brazil's Slave Orchestras; How Brazilian Popular Music Arose; The Modinha and the sung Lundu; The African Heritage in Brazilian Popular Music
Maxixe and modern Samba
Appendix A: Continuity and Change in the Music of the Kondo-Angola Culture Area
Appendix B: African Musical Instruments in Brazil
Appendix C: The Brazilian Musical Heritage in Nigeria and Benin
Appendix D: The Music and Dance of Cape Verde
Appendix E: Relacao de fofa que veya angora da Bahia: Extract
Discography
Notes
Index
Maps: Sketch-map of Brazil; Sketch-map of the Atlantic Cultural Triangle
List of Figures: A Xango dance in Pernambuco, c. 1634-41 as Seen by Zacharias Wagner; A Present-Day Candomble Ceremony in Brazil, with an Orchestra of Three Drums; Blocos Afro Bring their Assertive and Compelling Music on to the Salvador Streets at Carnival Time; Capoeira in the 1820's; "The Blind Singer"; Present-day Capoeira; Coffee-carriers in Rio de Janiero in the 1840's; 'Festival of Our Lady of the Rosary, Patron Saint of Blacks', c.1821-25; Black Dancers on a Pernambuco Sugar Plantation in the 1640s; The 'Baducca' as Dances in Sao Paulo, c. 1817-20; The 'Danse Batuca', c. 1821-25; The Lundu, Danced by a Black Couple, c. 1821-25; The Lundu, Danced by a White Couple, c.1821-1825; The Maxixe in Caricature