Samba: Resistance in Motion
- Author: Browning, Barbara
Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable book on various dance forms in contemporary Brazil
Samba: Resistance in Motion
- Author: Browning, Barbara
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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
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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.
Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. SAMBA: THE BODY ARTICULATE
- 2. DIVINE CHOREOGRAPHY AND THE EMBODIMENT OF METAPHOR
- 3. HEADSPIN: CAPOEIRA'S IRONIC INVERSIONS
- 4. OF THE DAUGHTERS OF GANDHI AND THE DANCE OF THE CHICKEN
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- INDEX
Awards and reviews
Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable book on various dance forms in contemporary Brazil
Dance Research Journal
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
