O mistério do samba
By: Hermano Vianna.
Edition: 6a. ed.
Series: Coleção Antropologia social; Antropologia social (Zahar Editores)
Publisher: Zahar; UFRJ Editora
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Language: por
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9788571103214
Subjects: Sambas -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Brazil -- History and criticism; Music -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Description: "Exemplary study, based on author's dissertation in anthropology (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1994), focuses on social aspects of the urban samba, offering an account of the genre's early popularity. The dissemination of samba as a national product of Brazil in the 1930s-40s not only reflected the interests of a specific social and ethnic group, but was also the result of a set of complex interactions among the lower classes, intellectuals, politicians, art music composers, and foreign visitors"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Modified version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193).