[Download] The Mystery of Samba : Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
✿ Hermano Vianna ✿
| #935432 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 1999-02-16 | 1999-02-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.42 x5.50l,.52 | File Name: 0807847666 | 168 pages |
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| provocative & interesting read|By gergelim38|This is a straightforward, easy to read, enjoyable and informative book about how samba dance and music moved from a marginalized position to one now considered to be at the "heart" of Brazilian identity. Vianna, a scholar of music, introduces the reader to important samba musicians, intellectuals, and government officials in this|From Library Journal|The "mystery" of the title is samba's transformation "from infamous outcast to (virtually official) national emblem." Brazilian anthropologist Vianna here casts a dry postmodern eye on issues of cultural invention and the identification of
Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm" the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity. But how did Brazil become "the Kingdom of Samba" only a few decades after ab...
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