White face, black mask
Subtitle: Africaneity and the early social history of popular music in Brazil
By: Darien J. Davis.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press; Michigan State Univ Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780870138348
Subjects: Popular music -- Brazil -- 20th century -- African influences; Ethnicity -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century; Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Brazil -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Afro-Brazilian pioneers, blackness, and the roots of Brazilian popular music; title: Afro-Brazilians and the early popular music forums of Rio de Janeiro; title: Race, class, and technology in the promotion of the popular Brazilian sound; title: Race, class, and the making of the King; title: Africaneity, performance, and the women of Brazilian popular music; title: Race and Brazilianness abroad in the early era of globalization; title: Afro-Brazilian performers and the legacy of music of the Vargas era.