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Spirit Song - Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries (Hardcover)
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Spirit Song - Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries (Hardcover)
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In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries,
ethnomusicologist Marc Gidal explains how and why a multi-faith
community in southern Brazil uses music to combine and segregate
three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque.
Spirit Song will be the first book in any language about the music
of Umbanda and its close relative Quimbanda-twentieth-century
fusions of European Spiritism, Afro-Brazilian religion, and Folk
Catholicism-as well as the first publication in English about the
music of the African-derived Batuque religion and "Afro-gaucho"
identity, a local term that celebrates the contributions of African
descendants to the cowboy culture of southernmost Brazil. Combining
ethnomusicology and symbolic boundary studies, Gidal advances a
theory of musical boundary-work: the use of music to reinforce,
bridge, or blur boundaries, whether for personal, social,
spiritual, or political purposes. The Afro-gaucho religious
community uses music and rituals to varisuly promote innovation and
egalitarianism in Umbanda and Quimbanda, whereas it reinforces
musical preservation and hierarchies in Batuque. Religious and
musical leaders carefully restrict the cosmologies, ceremonial
sequences, and sung prayers of one religion from affecting the
others so as to safeguard Batuque's African heritage. Members of
disenfranchised populations have also used the religions as
vehicles for empowerment, whether based on race-ethnicity, gender,
or religious belief; and innovations in ritual music reflect this
activism. Gidal explains these points by describing and
interpreting spirit-mediumship rituals and their musical
accompaniment, drawing on the perspectives of participants, with
video and audio examples available on the book's companion website.
The first book in English to explore music in Afro-Brazilian
religions, Spirit Song is a landmark study that will be of interest
to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and religious studies
scholars.
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