The African Presence in Brazil : Slavery, Resistance, Miscegenation and Strategic Popularization of Afro-Brazilian Music Culture
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Authors
Flax, Danielle Dubois
Issue Date
2004
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Thesis
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en_US
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This thesis intends to investigate the history of slavery in Brazil, its effects
on the demographic, psychological and political reality of Afro-Brazilians, and
most essentially: how representations of Afro-Brazilian music and culture that
were de-valorized, persecuted and outlawed for such extended periods of time became appropriated by the powerful, white Brazilian communities and
subsequently became the quasi-official symbols of Brazilian culture.
This research also focuses on Samba as one of these appropriated cultural
symbols that, as the focus of Hermano Vianna's book, The Mystery of Samba,
made an "unexplained leap from infamous outcast to (virtually official) national
emblem, a transformation conventionally mentioned only in passing..."(12).
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i, 69 p.
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