1. Understanding Music in Brazil

2. Locating Brazil and Its Diverse Musical Culture

3. A Country Divided Conceptions about the Northeast ruralrural conservative and traditionalconservative and traditional oldold colonial pastcolonial past Conceptions about the Northeast ruralrural conservative and traditionalconservative and traditional oldold colonial pastcolonial past Conceptions about the South urbanurban progressive and industrialprogressive and industrial modernmodern national futurenational future

4. Carnival Scenes from Recife

5. Carnival Scenes Maracatu de Baque Virado YouTube

6. Carnival Scenes BlocoCarnavalescoBlocoCarnavalesco YouTube

7. Carnival Scenes CaboclinhosCaboclinhos YouTube

8. Brazilian Northeast Coastal Strip –Center of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Heritage –African-European Racial Mixture –Major Cities Interior Sertão –Caboclos (Portuguese/Amerindian Racial Mixture) –Rural Based and Agrarian

9. MiscegenationMiscegenation –Interracial Biological Reproduction –Racial Identity and Social Hierarchy –Cultural Mixture of Traditions

10. Creating and Contesting Brazil’s Racial Democracy –Gilberto Freyre –Miscegenation and the Brazilian national character –Conflicting Views of Race Relations

11. Music, Race, and the Aesthetics of Participation –African Heritage in the Northeast –Cultural/Artistic Mixture –Folklore and Afro-Brazilian tradition –Racial Identity and the Aesthetics of Participation

12. Intercultural Mixture during Colonial Times in the Northeast –Black Charamelas –Sacred and Secular Processions –African and European Musical Styles