Nº3 Congada

Roots to Fruits

ZIN 271 N
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CONDITION & NOTES
New

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Softcover

2024

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Roots to Fruits 27 x 13.5 x 0.5 cm
CONDITION
New

TYPE
Softcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2024

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Roots to Fruits

DIMENSIONS
27 x 13.5 x 0.5 cm

ABOUT

Over the course of five decades, self-taught musician and ethnomusicologist Spirito Santo (1947) has produced hundreds of hours of audio recordings containing music, reports and interviews, many meters of black & white negatives and colored slides using amateur photographic equipment, such as polaroids, point-and-shoot cameras and K7 recorders, capturing unique moments of the cultural history of the Central African diaspora in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

 

This season of Roots to Fruits explores the building of a self-funded archive and one of its most recurrent themes, namely: Congadas. Far from the academic realm, which had little to no interest in understanding the “African culture in Brazil”, the archive tells many stories. It speaks of a resilient musician looking for resonance and the history of his people, as well as of the underexposed Black inheritance of Brazil’s identity.