Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção

*10.0

Status

Released

Production

Embrafilme

Aired

1975-12-11

Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção

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.