Samba
Resistance in Motion
Published on 22. November 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-253-20956-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable book on various dance forms in contemporary Brazil."-Choice". . . a work that is not only evocative, but provocative."-Bulletin of Latin American Research
". . . 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
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
13 b&w photos, 9 figures
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-20956-6 (9780253209566)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.
Content
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
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