Brazil and Music Intro (ppt 1)

Question 1

quilombos

Answer 1

• communities of run-away enslaved persons

Question 2

African motifs in music

Answer 2

call-and-response, improvisation, syncopation

Question 3

racial democracy

Answer 3

-the idea that Brazil doesn’t discriminate among race due to the various different races/ethnicities located within the country
- oppression is based off social class rather than race in Brazil
- problematic because it denies racism which is counterproductive to fixing it