Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nao and Candombl: Repercussion [Paperback]

1. Introduction? 2. Where the Lion Walks: Le?o Coroado, Pathways and Trajectories? 3. Ground: States of Peripherality, Ecologies of Reciprocity? 4. Rhythm: Non-linear Histories of Sound, Sensation and Spirit? 5.?Conclusions: Holding History Open???????????

Rhythm, Ancestrality and?Spirit in Maracatu de Na??o and Candombl??examines how the highly percussive carnival practice of Maracatu de na??o has evolved in relation to the cosmology of Candombl? Nag? in the urban centres of Recife and Olinda, Brazil.

Lizzie Ogle is a musician, composer, music educator and researcher, with a focus on decolonial and eco- musicological theory and practice. Alongside regular musical performance, creation and education, she completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at Kings College London in 2020, and has since lectured at SOAS University of London on topics including music and colonialism, decolonial ethnographic methods, music and ecology, embodiment, trance ritual and divinity.

Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Na??o and Candombl?: Repercussions examines how the highly percussive carnival practice of Maracatu de na??o  an Afro-Brazilian musical and spiritual tradition originating in the north- eastern state of Pernambuco  has evolved in relation to the cosmology of Candombl? Nag? in the urban centres of Recife and Olinda, Brazil.

Offering one of the first detailed ethnographic explorations into maracatu de na??o, Candombl? Nag? and the connections between them, this book is a collaborative enquiry into frequently negated sacred and ancestral knowledge systems central to Afro-Brazilian musical-spiritual practices. Using an innovative research framework which integrates musical and rhythmic practices with spiritual, ancestral and ecological knowledge systems, readers are provided with an intimate ethnographlc0