Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil

by Daniel B. Sharp

Chronicles the entanglement of traditional and experimental music in northeast Brazil

Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse is a close-to-the-ground account of musicians and dancers from Arcoverde, Pernambuco--a small city in the northeastern Brazilian backlands. The book's focus on samba de coco families, marked as bearers of tradition, and the band Cordel do Fogo Encantado, marketed as pop iconoclasts, offers a revealing portrait of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081957502X
• ISBN13: 9780819575029
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.8"