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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
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Authors: Bryan McCann
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“Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplac
The Mystery of Samba
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Traces how the samba became the national music of Brazil, and argues the aim was to create a distinctively Brazilian identity and the appearance of racial equal
Contracultura
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Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of
Uneven Encounters
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In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demo