Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years
of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West
African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the
African Diaspora. Ase is imagined as power and creative energy
bestowed upon human beings by ancestral spirits acting as
guardians. In Brazil, the West African Yoruba concept of ase is
known as axe and has been reinvented, transmitted, and nurtured in
Candomble, an Afro-Brazilian religion that is practiced in
Salvador, Bahia.The author examines how the concepts of axe and
Candomble religion have been appropriated and reinvented in
Brazilian popular music and culture. Featuring interviews with
practitioners and local musicians, the book explains how many
Brazilian popular music styles such as samba, bossa nova,
samba-reggae, ijexa, and axe have musical and stylistic elements
that stem from Afro-Brazilian religion. The book also discusses how
young Afro-Brazilians combine Candomble religious music with
African American music such as blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk, and
rap.Henry argues for the importance of axe as a unifying force
tying together the secular and sacred Afro-Brazilian musical
landscape."
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