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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

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

“Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplac

Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of

First published in 1999, this volume examines the impact of political, social and cultural developments on the nation’s most popular musical form, samba, in t