African-Brazilian culture and regional identity in Bahia, Brazil /
This book examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, Bahian elites began to recognize African-Bahian cultural practices as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé dur...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2013]
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Colección: | New World diasporas series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Brazil's Black Rome and the remaking of Bahian regional identity
- Salvador, Bahia, 1930-1954
- The revitalization of African-Bahian culture
- Performing Bahia: public festivals, samba, and African-Bahian agency
- Rituals of inclusion: evolving discourses of Bahianness
- Carnival of the people: Batucadas and Afoxés
- The project of regional identity formation: culture, politics, and tourism
- Conclusion and epilogue : cultural politics in Bahia.