Samba (Vintage Departures)

by Alma Guillermoprieto (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

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  Paperback
  1991

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  Every year at Carnival season each of Rio's favelas - the shanty-town slums in the hills surrounding the city - sends a samba school of thousands of costumed dancers, musicians and floats to compete in the carnival parade. The author, a dancer by training and a journalist, spent one such season with the samba school of Mangueira, not only learning the art of this dazzlingly complex dance, but also exploring the world of samba - the excesses and enthusiasms, the poverty and danger behind the glossy images of travel brochures and TV spectaculars.