"Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil)
(2015)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2015). "Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil). In R. Harris, & R. Pease (Eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Routledge
This recording opens with a melancholy solo song about being enslaved and forcibly transported to Brazil. It then passes through a praise section in which the chorus joins in, before moving to the more up-beat call-and-response songs that accompany t... Read More about "Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil).