a flash in the city of Olinda, Brazil
In Olinda, one of the first Brazilian cities, manifestations of popular art of European and African cultural heritage.
The man sells "Cordel literature" a popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs. They are produced and sold in street markets and by street vendors in Brazil, mainly in the Northeast.
In Europe, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the troubadours sang poems to the population, which, for the most part, was not literate. With the creation of printing methods, cordel was born, becoming popular through the exhibition of papers hanging on ropes — or "cordéis", as they are called in Portugal.
a flash in the city of Olinda, Brazil
In Olinda, one of the first Brazilian cities, manifestations of popular art of European and African cultural heritage.
The man sells "Cordel literature" a popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs. They are produced and sold in street markets and by street vendors in Brazil, mainly in the Northeast.
In Europe, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the troubadours sang poems to the population, which, for the most part, was not literate. With the creation of printing methods, cordel was born, becoming popular through the exhibition of papers hanging on ropes — or "cordéis", as they are called in Portugal.