Undesired Presences: Samba, Improvisation, and Afro-politics in 1970s Brazil

This article explores the role of the samba subgenre partido alto as a mode of resistance to modernization and the Brazilian military regime’s disfiguration of samba music in the 1970s. This resistance ultimately led a handful of samba musicians to create the Grêmio Recreativo de Arte Negra Escola d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephen Bocskay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017-07-01
Series:Latin American Research Review
Online Access:https://larrlasa.org/articles/71