Mystery of Samba Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

Name: Mystery of Samba Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
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ISBN: 9780807847664

ISBN-10: 0807847666

ISBN-13: 9780807847664

Edition: 1999

Authors: Hermano Vianna, John Charles Chasteen

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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 abolishing slavery in 1888? Typically, samba is represented as having changed spontaneously, mysteriously, from a "repressed" music of the marginal and impoverished to a national symbol cherished by all Brazilians. Here,…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Translator's


Preface


Author's Preface to the U.S. Edition


Acknowledgments



The Encounter



The Mystery



Popular Music and the Brazilian Elite



The Unity of the Nation



Race Mixture



Gilberto Freyre



The Modern Samba



Samba of My Native Land



Nowhere at All



Conclusions


Notes


Index