Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of
field research on sacred and secular influences of àsé, the West
African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African
Diaspora. Àsé is imagined as power and creative energy bestowed upon
human beings by ancestral spirits acting as guardians. In Brazil, the
West African Yoruba concept of àsé is known as axé and has been
reinvented, transmitted, and nurtured in Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian
religion that is practiced in Salvador, Bahia.
The author
examines how the concepts of axé and Candomblé religion have been
appropriated and reinvented in Brazilian popular music and culture.
Featuring interviews with practitioners and local musicians, the book
explains how many Brazilian popular music styles such as samba, bossa
nova, samba-reggae, ijexá, and axé have musical and stylistic elements
that stem from Afro-Brazilian religion. The book also discusses how
young Afro-Brazilians combine Candomblé religious music with African
American music such as blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk, and rap.
Henry argues for the importance of axé as a unifying force tying
together the secular and sacred Afro-Brazilian musical landscape.
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