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This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the communal creative process of music and discusses the process of music change in Bumba-meu-Boi, and provides an example of exo-semantic analysis in the quest for the truth of this folk drama in Brazil. It argues that Bumba-meu-Boi sheds light on eighteenth century Brazil and reveals existing levels of interaction between classes (master-slave, oppressor-oppressed) on sugar cane plantations and mills. A sociologist perspective demonstrates that the structure of the Bumba-meu-Boi reflects a similar network of relations, as they exist in communities where it was and still is performed.

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Written in a clear style free of jargon, this book introduces and analyzes from several different angles a folk drama common in Maranhao, in northwest Brazil. The presentation of this drama provides an opportunity to release aggressions through the hilarious display of social sanction and to express simultaneously devotion to St. John, St. Peter, and St. Mark.... [T]his thorough study that gives a deeper understanding of this genre than earlier scholarship affords. -CHOICE It is a thought-provoking book.... Kazadi's work is a well thought out study that will serve as a model, ground-breaker, for students of the Brazilian culture and those studying rapport between members from different social classes. -Gerhard Kubik

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