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Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Announcements http://stremedia.uc.edu Book examples Guiermoprieto Samba. Summarizing Waterman Roles of Women John Storm Roberts Béhague “Patterns of Candomblé”. Wednesday, January 12, 2000. Black People of South America and the Caribbean.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2000

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  1. Announcements http://stremedia.uc.edu Book examples Guiermoprieto Samba Summarizing Waterman Roles of Women John Storm Roberts Béhague “Patterns of Candomblé” Wednesday, January 12, 2000

  2. Black People of South America and the Caribbean • Non-black people with African-derived stylistic and aesthetic practices • Black people with Native American stylistic and aesthetic practices • Do not essentialize, these are historical processes

  3. Musical change Syncretism Metronome sense Harmony 5 Dominant values Metronome sense Dominance of percussion Polymeter Off-beat phrasing Overlapping call-and-response patterns Assumes homogeneity Supports Herkovits Summarizing Waterman

  4. Roles of Women • Kinship & Descent • Matrifocal • E.g., black migrants in La Paz, Bolivia • Matrilineal • E.g., Saramaka of Suriname • Participation • Leadership • Mae do santo in Bahia, Brazil • Madrina in Cuba Bahian candomblé dancers

  5. John Storm Roberts • The Latin Tinge (1979) • Black Music of Two Worlds (1998)

  6. Reading Roberts • Roger Bastide • Tri-Ethnic heritage • African • European • Native American • Cinquillo

  7. Reading Roberts • Heterophony • Parallel thirds • Décima • Blue notes • “Nonmusical instruments” • Why do the Bucket Boys play buckets? • Compare with “Stomp”

  8. History of Slavery in Brazil • Sugar plantations • Pernambuco (main sugar plantation region) • Recife (main sugar port) • Salvador, Bahia (secondary sugar port) • War between Portuguese and Dutch

  9. Candomblé Video Excerpt The Spirit of Samba: Black Music of Brazil

  10. Béhague “Patterns of Candomblé” • Traditional Candomblé • Ketu and Ijexá (Yoruba) • Gêge (Fon) • Congo-Angola cults • Nagô: • Ketu • Ijexá

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