Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
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In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act-claiming ownership of a musical composition-set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822354306
ISBN13:9780822354307
Release Date:April 2013
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:392 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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