Between nostalgia and apocalypse

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.

Year

2014

Language

English

Series

Music/culture

Publisher

Wesleyan

Editions

1

Pages

159

ISBN

9780819575029

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