Color of Sound Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil

Name: Color of Sound Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
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ISBN: 9780814709238

ISBN-10: 0814709230

ISBN-13: 9780814709238

Edition: 2013

Authors: John Burdick

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Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind the scenes, however, the community is deeply involved in the formation of different kinds of blackness—and its engagement in racial politics is rooted in the major new cultural movement of black music. In this highly original account, anthropologist John Burdick explores the complex ideas about race, racism, and racial identity that have grown up among Afro-Brazilians in the black music scene.…

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List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 237
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

John Burdick is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is author of Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil at the Start of a New Millennium, Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil, and Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil's Religious Arena.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Something 'Bout the Name of Jesus: Racial Meanings in Evangelical Musical Scenes



We Are the Modern Levites: Three Gospel Music Scenes



We Are All One in the Periferia: Blackness, Place, and Poverty in Gospel Rap



The Flags of Jesus and Brazil: Body, History, and Nation in Samba Gospel



A Voice So Full of Pain and Power: Black Gospel and Blackness



The Bible Is Full of Prophecies: Black Evangelical Musicians and Black Politics


Conclusion: Evangelicalism, Blackness, and Music in Brazil


Notes


References


Index


About the Author