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Samba: Resistance in Motion
Barbara Browning
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Description for Samba: Resistance in Motion
Paperback. A unique perspective on the social history and cultural complexity of Afro-Brazilian dance. Series: Arts & Politics of the Everyday. Num Pages: 192 pages, 13 b&w photos, 9 figures. BIC Classification: ASD; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
Arts & Politics of the Everyday
Condition
New
Weight
286g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253209566
SKU
V9780253209566
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About Barbara Browning
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.
Reviews for Samba: Resistance in Motion
. . . 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
. . . a work that is not only evocative, but provocative.
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable ... Read more
Dance Research Journal
. . . a work that is not only evocative, but provocative.
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable ... Read more