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Article: Let's Makes Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music
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- July 1, 2009
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Let's Makes Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music. By Clarence Bernard Henry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. Pp. xiii, 234. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth.
Despite its tide, this book is less about the roots than about the branches - or better yet, about the flowering - of thasporic awareness in contemporary Brazil. It explores that topic primarily through participant observation, providing an ethnomusicological look at popular culture in the city of Bahia, and more specifically, at the music that erupted from Bahia's annual street carnival in the 1980s to become an upstart rival of Rio-based samba in the ...