Samba: The Making of Brazilian Carnival by Alma Guillermoprieto

Samba: The Making of Brazilian Carnival

Alma Guillermoprieto

244 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative slow-paced
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To the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain--a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diamonds; prostitutes and pimps are queens and king...

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