Repentista
A repentista is a vocal artist in Portugal and Brazil (especially in the northeast) who either performs poetic, often obscene, rhyming songs off the cuff , or within a desafion (“abuse, provocation”) with a partner in a musical competition occurs. He accompanies himself on the rural Brazilian guitar type "viola", but the lyrics are always more important than the music. Repentistas are also called "cantadores" or "trovadores", whereby these terms are also generic terms for all varieties of traveling singers. The underlying rhythms include the coco and the modinha . Repentistas appear in public squares and markets or in tourist centers.
Improvisation “is subject to complex rules which to master can require years of practice.” You can throw a few words to these artists about yourself, which they then add to the listener's physical appearance, clothes and manner of appearance Tailor-made poetic, sometimes already psychological creations transformed.
The art of the repentistas is closely linked to the Literatura de Cordel . The Ibero-American Institute has a collection of Repentista texts and Cordel notebooks. In Brazil itself there is extensive research on text analysis and categorization in the field of traveling singers.
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- ↑ Claus Schreiner : Música Popular Brasileira. Handbook of the Folkloric and Popular Music of Brazil, Marburg 1985, page 37 ff.
- ↑ a b José Maria Rocha Tenório, quoted in Tiago de Oliveira Pinto (Editor): Brazil. Introduction to the Music Traditions of Brazil Mainz 1986, page 88
- ↑ Tiago de Oliveira Pinto: Capoeira, Samba, Candomblé. Afro-Brazilian music in the Recôncavo, Bahia, Berlin 1991, page 144 ff.