Afro-Brazilian Music and Rituals: From Traditional Genres to the Beginnings of Samba

Jose Jorge de Carvalho, University of Brasilia

This paper serves as a resource when teaching about Afro-Brazilian music. The paper discusses musical genres, traditional rural genres and ritual genres connected with Catholicism. A few songs are included as examples of the variety of genres within Afro-Brazilian music.

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