‘Let’s do Wonders!’

participants’ ritual and aesthetic evaluation of their performances in Afro-Brazilian Reinado

Authors

  • Glaura Lucas University Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (Brazil)

Keywords:

Reinado, Myth, Ritual music, Wonder, Afro-Brazilian religiousness

Abstract

The text approaches the meanings of ‘wonder’ in the context of the Afro-Brazilian ritual called the ‘Reign of Our Lady of the Rosary’, according to the way it is applied in the songs’ lyrics and in participants’ verbal discourses. Analyses were based on participants’ perspectives about the origin and history of their religious tradition, which is based on their enslaved ancestors’ experiences of pain. Those facts and events still highlight the sense of belonging to this tradition nowadays and make their performative acts meaningful, significant and thus wonderful.

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Author Biography

Glaura Lucas, University Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (Brazil)

She is an ethnomusicologist, assistant professor at the Department of General Music Theory at the UFMG School of Music, where she currently coordinates the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Laboratory. She holds a PhD in music from UNIRIO, with an internship at the Open University (UK). She is a researcher of Afro-Brazilian musical cultures. She published Os Sons do Rosário: o congado mineiro dos Arturos e Jatobá (Ed. UFMG, 2002) based on her master's thesis, winner of the Prêmio Sílvio Romero (Funarte/ MinC, 1999). She coordinated, along with José Bonifácio da Luz, the production of the CD-book Cantando e Reinando com os Arturos (2006). He is a member of the research group Experience and meaning in music performance at the Open University, England.

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Published

2011-07-11

How to Cite

Lucas, Glaura. 2011. “‘Let’s Do Wonders!’: Participants’ Ritual and Aesthetic Evaluation of Their Performances in Afro-Brazilian Reinado”. Per Musi, no. 24 (July):1-5. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/40411.

Issue

No. 24 (2011): General Topics

Section

Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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