Afro-Sampas

Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, Jasper Chalcraft 2020 Brazil Portuguese with English subtitles 43 minutes

AFRICAN MUSIC & HERITAGE, BRAZIL, MIGRATION, ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Afro-Sampas is part of a five-year research project coordinated by the film’s two directors, called ‘Being/Becoming African in Brazil: African music and heritage’. This project is funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), and is part of a larger academic project in Brazil entitled ‘Local Musicking: new pathways for ethnomusicology’. Today Brazilian music is experiencing an unprecedented moment with the arrival of musicians from different African countries in the metropolis of São Paulo. The film documents what happens when musicians from both sides of the Atlantic are brought into contact in the city where they live. Yannick Delass (Democratic Republic of Congo), Edoh Fiho (Togo), Lenna Bahule (Mozambique), and the Brazilians Ari Colares, Chico Saraiva and Meno del Picchia accept our invitation to a first meeting in which they share sounds, memories and creativity.

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