Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção (1975)

10.0/10 • 68 min • Documentary

Overview

Documentary about popular art manifestations in Northeast Brazil: the "cordel" literature (popular literature, small stories sold in markets); "repente", kind of musical challenge between two singers, who have to improvise the verses, in strict rhyme; and the interaction between these and local popular song.

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