LIFE AND ART IN AD LIB

Abstract

“Versos Quentes e Baiões de Viola: Cantorias e Cantadores do/no Nordeste Brasileiro no Século XX” (EDUFCG, 279 páginas) by historian and Post-doctorate in ethnomusicology Francisco José Gomes Damasceno, provides an overview and detailed consideration of the aspect of singing viola in northeastern Brazil during the twentieth century, dialogue with important names in popular culture as northeastern, Cascudo, Leonardo Mota, Elba Ramalho Braga, among others. The author seeks to give importance to production and cultural knowledge dedicating his gaze to that object often overlooked and undervalued by the "intellectual strata" of society.