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Catholic Music in Lusophone New Jersey: Circum-Atlantic Music, Intergroup Dynamics, and Immigrant Struggles in Transnational Communities

Catholic Music in Lusophone New Jersey: Circum-Atlantic Music, Intergroup Dynamics, and Immigrant... mA r C m e ISTr ICH GIDAl Catholic m usic in l usophone New Jersey: Circum- Atlantic m usic, Intergroup Dynamics, and Immigrant Struggles in Transnational Communities Approximately eight hundred b razilians, Portuguese, and other Catho- lics gathered outside St. James Church in Newark, New Jersey, on a mild Sunday morning in o ctober 2013. They convened for a procession, m ass, and festival to celebrate the Virgin m ary in her advocation of o ur l ady of Aparecida, the patroness of brazil. Her clay statue had appeared in 1717 to river fishermen in Aparecida, a town in the state of São Paulo, which became a major pilgrimage site. During the procession through a neighborhood called the Ironbound, in the center of Newark’s l uso- phone (i.e., Portuguese-speaking) community , the small replica statue of the Virgin mary, with a dark blue robe and gold crown, was carried next to a tall cream-color ed statue of mary as o ur l ady of Fátima, the patroness of Portugal, who is also venerated in brazil. In front of the two statues’ palanquins, parishioners carried flags of the Vatican, b razil, Portugal, and the u nited States, as well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

Catholic Music in Lusophone New Jersey: Circum-Atlantic Music, Intergroup Dynamics, and Immigrant Struggles in Transnational Communities

Gidal, Marc Meistrich
American Music , Volume 34 (2) – Sep 11, 2016
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University of Illinois Press
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mA r C m e ISTr ICH GIDAl Catholic m usic in l usophone New Jersey: Circum- Atlantic m usic, Intergroup Dynamics, and Immigrant Struggles in Transnational Communities Approximately eight hundred b razilians, Portuguese, and other Catho- lics gathered outside St. James Church in Newark, New Jersey, on a mild Sunday morning in o ctober 2013. They convened for a procession, m ass, and festival to celebrate the Virgin m ary in her advocation of o ur l ady of Aparecida, the patroness of brazil. Her clay statue had appeared in 1717 to river fishermen in Aparecida, a town in the state of São Paulo, which became a major pilgrimage site. During the procession through a neighborhood called the Ironbound, in the center of Newark’s l uso- phone (i.e., Portuguese-speaking) community , the small replica statue of the Virgin mary, with a dark blue robe and gold crown, was carried next to a tall cream-color ed statue of mary as o ur l ady of Fátima, the patroness of Portugal, who is also venerated in brazil. In front of the two statues’ palanquins, parishioners carried flags of the Vatican, b razil, Portugal, and the u nited States, as well

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American Music – University of Illinois Press

Published: Sep 11, 2016

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