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Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts
The centrality of the body, embodiment, and complexities of racial identity in performing Brazilianness is highlighted in chapters focusing on dance, movement, and film. Benjamin Legg (chapter 9) argues that Brazilian movie star Sônia Braga both embodied and contested variant Brazilian conceptions of female sexuality and beauty linked to racial identity as she simultaneously embodied North American expectations and fantasies of the Latina woman. Cristina Rosa shows how Grupo Corpo, one of Brazil's premiere modern dance companies, captured national and international attention through its combinations of Euro-Brazilian ballet techniques with choreographic deconstructions of ginga, a sinuous and syncopated style of swaying the body historically related to Afro-Brazilian movement practices.
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Music of Latin America and the Caribbean
(Paper US$ 60.00) Mark Brill's Music of Latin America and the Caribbean is a textbook designed to introduce undergraduate students to a diversity of musical styles and genres and to explain the social, cultural, political, and aesthetic processes through which they emerged. The emergence of mestizo musical cultures through the syncretic melding of (mainly) Native, European, and African elements common to New World cultures is presented in a way that prods readers to understand music as a transformative enterprise of identity construction. Chapter 8, on the Andean region, emphasizes Peru and the influence of Native and mestizo cultures, and includes the most extensive description of musical instruments found in the book.
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Book Reviews: Twentieth Century: \The Social History of the Brazilian Samba,\ by Lisa Shaw
Reviews Lisa Shaw's book (Ashgate, 1999, 211p, $68.95), about the Brazilian samba. Focuses on the evolution of urban commercial samba in Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century, giving special attention to the lyrics written in the decisive years between 1930 and 1945. Mentions that it was during this period when samba developed into a commercial genre acceptable to middle class tastes, becomming a symbol of Brazilian national identity. Remarks that the book's value lies in Shaw's extensive commentary on the lyrics balanced with her sensitive attention to the political, social, and cultural contexts in which they were written.
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