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15. Forró Eletrônico
Saison 1 · Épisode 15
mardi 14 septembre 2021 • Durée 35:49
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden continue their discussion the popular music genre forró with an exploration of the history and musical features of the sub-genre known as forró eletrônico.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden continue their discussion the popular music genre forró with an exploration of the history and musical features of the sub-genre known as forró universitário.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden continue their discussion the popular music genre forró with an exploration of themes of migration from the Brazilian Northeast.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden continue their discussion the popular music genre forró with an exploration of the history and musical features of the dance tradition called baião, as well as its continued usage in popular music.
They are joined once again by accordionist and forró historian Julinho Mendes.
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11. Forró: Xaxado
Saison 1 · Épisode 11
mardi 20 juillet 2021 • Durée 47:13
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden continue their series on the Brazilian music genre known as forró with a discussion of the dance rhythm called xaxado. They discuss the musical characteristics of the genre and show a number of examples.
They are joined by special guest Julinho Mendes, an accordionist (sanfoneiro) and forró historian.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden continue their discussion the popular music genre forró with an exploration of the history and musical features of the dance tradition called xote.
They are joined once again by accordionist and forró historian Julinho Mendes.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden begin their series on the Brazilian music genre known as forró with a discussion of the festas juninas (June festivals), one of the most popular yearly traditions, especially in the Northeast region. They discuss the saints honored at these festivals, the food and atmosphere, as well as the musical tradition known as forró that accompanies the festivities. The demonstrate the instruments featured in the forró ensemble and share some specifics on arrasta-pé, one of the many sub-genres of forró. They also discuss the ways that this tradition has permeated other parts of Brazil and other genres.
They are joined by special guest Julinho Mendes, an accordionist (sanfoneiro) and forró historian.
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden discuss the poetry of maracatu de baque solto from the zona da mata region of the northeastern state of Pernambuco. The discuss the structure of the sambada and the poetic forms marcha, galope, samba em dez, and samba curto. They are joined, once again, by anthropologist and historian Dr. Chris Estrada.
Chris Estrada (of Michigan State University) has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Brazil. Dr. Estrada will work with collaborators at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) during portions of 2022 and 2023 as part of the project “Every Day Is Carnival: Improvisation and Cultural Preservation in the Rural Maracatus of Pernambuco.”
This Fulbright Scholar award will enable Dr. Estrada to collaborate with people in the music and anthropology departments at UFPE in creating a virtual archive and website focused on maracatu field recordings. In addition to digitizing analog cassettes of sambadas and ensaios, he also plans to make his own recordings from 2009-2012 available there, and to supplement the audio material with historical and GIS data on the places where all of this takes place, with as much specificity about the people making it as possible.
Find more of his work at https://www.baquesolto.org/
Juliana Cantarelli Vita and Schuyler Whelden discuss the music tradition maracatu de baque solto from the zona da mata region of the northeastern state of Pernambuco. They are joined by maracatu practitioner Mestre Bi and anthropologist and historian Dr. Chris Estrada.
Chris Estrada (of Michigan State University) has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Brazil. Dr. Estrada will work with collaborators at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) during portions of 2022 and 2023 as part of the project “Every Day Is Carnival: Improvisation and Cultural Preservation in the Rural Maracatus of Pernambuco.”
This Fulbright Scholar award will enable Dr. Estrada to collaborate with people in the music and anthropology departments at UFPE in creating a virtual archive and website focused on maracatu field recordings. In addition to digitizing analog cassettes of sambadas and ensaios, he also plans to make his own recordings from 2009-2012 available there, and to supplement the audio material with historical and GIS data on the places where all of this takes place, with as much specificity about the people making it as possible.
Find more of his work at https://www.baquesolto.org/
