Samba: Resistance in Motion (Arts and Politics of the Everyday) [Paperback]

Barbara Browning (Author)

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Publication Date: November 22, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0253209560 | ISBN-13: 978-0253209566

Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer, fully engaged in the dance cultures of Brazil and of Brazilian exile communities in the U.S.

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"Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable book on various dance forms in contemporary Brazil." —Choice

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"... provides dance studies with much needed data and ideas for analyses which will look further than dance-as-text, or dance-as-reflection-of-culture." —Dance Research Journal

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"... a work that is not only evocative, but provocative." —Bulletin of Latin American Research

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About the Author

BARBARA BROWNING teaches diasporic literature and cultural studies in the English Department at Princeton University. She has studied, taught, and performed Brazilian dance in Brazil, the United States, and Europe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (November 22, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253209560
• ISBN-13: 978-0253209566
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #570,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Barbara Browning has a PhD from Yale in Comparative Literature. She teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She's also a poet and a dancer. She lives with her son in Greenwich Village.

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This review is from: Samba: Resistance in Motion (Arts and Politics of the Everyday) (Paperback)

This is a fascinating look at movement in Brazil and the relationships between different types and styles of movement. This is a good place to start an exploration of this subject. It is a subjective account, although the historical information seems to be adequately researched. The value is more in the vivid snapshot the author creates of a period in the development of music and movement in the country, rather than as a comprehensive historical depiction. The author sometimes moves back and forth in ways that may seem unrelated until later in the book, so readers should be patient.