Ethnomusicology, diversity and innovation:
Africans and their descendants in Brazilian music
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https://doi.org/10.5335/hdtv.23n.3.15140Keywords:
Africans in Brazil., cultural resistance. , erudite and popular music.Abstract
The focus is on Brazilian historical inequalities based on Ethnomusicology, which studies the production conditions of musical genres that are peripheral to European standards of classical music. Music is seen as an example of the antithetical manifestation of classes, mirrored in the cultural categories of erudite and popular. Prejudices related to ethnic ancestry, combined with discriminatory actions, illustrate the traditional interpretations of the African presence in Brazilian music, in pluralistic images, emanated, as a rule, from the dialectic between slavery and freedom. This scenario is frequented by descendants of a slave-owning order, presenting images fragmented by the impacts that globalization imposes on identities excluded from the global objectives of international capitalism.
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