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Samba Resistance in Motion

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ISBN-10: 0253328675

ISBN-13: 9780253328670

Edition: 1995

Authors: Barbara Browning

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..". provides dance studies with much needed data and ideas for analyses which will look further than dance-as-text, or dance-as-reflection-of-culture." -- Dance Research Journal "Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable book on various dance forms in contemporary Brazil." -- Choice ..". a work that is not only evocative, but provocative. " -- Bulletin of Latin American Research Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer, fully engaged in…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 189
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

BARBARA BROWNING teaches diasporic literature and cultural studies in the English Department at Princeton University. She has studied, taught, and performed Brazilian dance in Brazil, the United States, and Europe.

Introduction
Samba: The Body Articulate
Divine Choreography and the Embodiment of Metaphor
Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions
Of the Daughters of Gandhi and the Dance of the Chicken
Conclusion
Notes
Index