Making “Uirapuru”: a musical quest in the Brazilian Rain Forest

Sixty years ago the author, an Israeli film student at the University of California, Los Angeles, set out to make a film based on a Brazilian Indian legend which had been set to music by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). Filming was carried out among Urubú-Ka’apor Indians in the state of Maranhão. In...

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Main Author: Sam Zebba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 2010-04-01
Series:Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
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Online Access:http://www.museu-goeldi.br/editora/bh/artigos/chv5n1_2010/memoria_making(zebba).pdf