¶ … Music Culture: Congado
The purpose of this work is to review the article written by Lucas Glaura about the music rituals of the Afro-Brazilian Group who has the "Ceremony of Congado."
Each year religious musical festivals take place in Minas Gerais, Brazil in which musical worship is the focus. These festivals and ceremonies hail from a past when the whites were actively making slaves of the blacks and these ceremonies were the cultural response to those dark times. The religious ceremonies are complete with chanting, singing, dancing and playing instruments. Considered a form of praying by the Afro-Brazilian religious groups that take part the ceremony and they are very serious about their dance and playing of instruments as all of this is a part of their worship and is considered to be highly sacred to these people.
Congado
This musical worship is known as "Congado" with thousands of the people coming from the small villages in which they live to take part in the ancient memorial. The groups that take part in this "Brotherhood of the Rosary are the Congo, Catope, Marujos, Mocambique, Candombe and Cabocios groups and they are called the guardas or ternos. Each group has its own definitive expressed through clothing, ritual objects as well as the choreography of the dance and other specific musical individualities.
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