The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil (Latin America in Translation/enTraduccion/em Traducao)

by JohnCharlesChasteen (Editor), HermanoVianna (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $49.67

  How did Brazil become the Kingdom of Samba only a few decades after abolishing slavery in 1888? The author of this book shows that the nationalization of samba actually rested on a long history of relations between different social groups, often working at cross-purposes to one another.