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Jongo

Jongo, also known as caxambu or tabu, is a dance and musical genre of black communities from southeast Brazil. It originated from the dances performed by slaves who worked at coffee plantations in

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  • Carneiro, Edison. “Samba de umbigada.” In: Folguedos Tradicionais. Rio de Janeiro: Funarte/INF, 1982 1961 .
  • Dias, Paulo. “A outra festa negra.” In: Festa: cultura e sociabilidade na América Portuguesa, edited by I. Jancsó and I. Kantor. São Paulo: Hucitec/Edusp/Fapesp/Imprensa Oficial, 2001.
  • Lara, Silvia Hunold & Pacheco, Gustavo (orgs.) Memória do jongo: as gravações históricas de Stanley J. Stein. Rio de Janeiro: Folha Seca, 2007.
  • Meira Monteiro, Pedro & Stone, Michael (orgs.) Cangoma calling: Spirits and Rhythms of Freedom in Brazilian Jongo Slavery Songs. Dartmouth: University of Massachusetts, Luso-Asio-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory, vol. 3, 2013. http://www.laabst.net/laabst3/#sthash.yWulDIw0.dpuf
  • Pacheco, Gustavo. “Jongos.” In: Colin Palmer (ed.) Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. New York: Macmillan, 2005.
  • Ribeiro, Maria de Lourdes Borges. O Jongo. Rio de Janeiro: Funarte/Instituto Nacional do Folclore, 1984.
  • Stein, Stanley J. Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 2nd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.
  • “Pontão de Cultura do Jongo”, web site and cultural program develop by the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and the National Heritage Institute of Brazil (IPHAN) together with 16 communities that practice jongo in Southeast Brazil: http://www.pontaojongo.uff.br
  • “Jongo no Sudeste”, dossier produced by the National Heritage Institute of Brazil (IPHAN): http://portal.iphan.gov.br/uploads/publicacao/PatImDos_jongo_m.pdf
  • “Jongo da Serrinha”, first video shot in Serrinha in the late 70’s, YouTube
Genre family
Brazilian styles of music