
Nordeste: Cordel, Repente e Canção
A warm, unhurried immersion into improvised verse and market-stall poetry, like sitting in on a lively cultural conversation.
- Directed by
- Tânia Quaresma
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Cego Oliveira, Pinto do Monteiro, Caju
- 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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- Directed by
- Tânia Quaresma
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Cego Oliveira, Pinto do Monteiro, Caju











