Brazilian Abolition - The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro. By Jeffrey D. Needell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 361. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 cloth.

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Fabrice Lehoucq
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Abolitionist Movement ◽  
Imperial Politics ◽  
Afro Brazilian

Another Political World

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Needell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political World ◽  
Imperial Politics ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Afro Brazilian

The Introduction lays out the past and recent historiography to explain the necessity for this book, emphasizing its focus on parliamentary history (poorly understood and generally ignored over the past fifty years), Afro-Brazilian mobilization (here restored to its primacy in the origins and constitution of the movement), and Rio de Janeiro (cockpit of imperial politics). It also emphasizes the importance of understanding the movement’s history chronologically, as something born of the interactions between itself and parliament, the monarch, and the Afro-Brazilian middle class and masses in Rio over time. Finally, it provides a brief account of the contents of each chapter

scholarly journals The music of sorcery in Brazil (Literary Conference)

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário de Andrade
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Brazilian Music ◽  
Mario De Andrade ◽  
Brazilian Northeast ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Afro Brazilian

Abstract “The music of sorcery in Brazil” was given as a lecture by Mário de Andrade to the Brazilian Music Association (Associação Brasileira de Música), in Rio de Janeiro, in 1933. The author never managed to complete its revision for publication. This was undertaken by Oneyda Alvarenga, who published the text of the lecture and a series of related documents in Volume XIII - Música de Feitiçaria no Brasil-of the Complete Works of Mário de Andrade (Editora Itatiaia/Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1983, p.23-70). The author is in search for the role of music, with its distinctive rhythms and melodic form, in the mystical trance of Afro-Brazilian religions. The text combines the flavour of his direct research experience in the catimbó of the Brazilian Northeast; his erudite bibliographical studies that were strongly influenced by evolutionary and diffusionist anthropology at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the twentieth; and an analysis of the music of macumba in the Rio de Janeiro around the 1930s as found in the recordings that Andrade so much enjoyed collecting and listening to.

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