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Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil

Door Suzel Reily

Categorie
Algemeen Landen & Volkeren
Boeknummer
#387525-UH6
Titel
Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil
Auteur
Reily, Suzel
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Chcago/London : University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0226709396
ISBN13
9780226709390
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original brown cloth, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Voices of the Magi explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as folias de reis (companies of kings). Composed predominantly of low-income workers, the folias reenact the journey of the Wise Men to Bethlehem and back to the Orient, as they roam from house to house, singing to bless the families they visit in exchange for food and money. These gifts, in turn, are used to prepare a festival on Kings' Day, January 6, to which all who contributed are invited. Focusing on urban folias, Suzel Ana Reily shows how participants use the ritual journeys and musical performances of the folias to create sacred spheres distinct from, yet intimately related to, their everyday world. Reily calls this practice "enchantment" and argues that it allows the folia com... (Lees verder)munities to temporarily make the social ideals of mutual reciprocity and equality embodied in their religious beliefs a reality. The contrast between their ritual experiences and the daily lives of these impoverished workers, in turn, reinforces the religious convictions of these devotees of the music of the Magi.
Pagina's
266
Conditie
Goed — Missing dust jacket.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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