Samba: Resistance in MotionBarbara 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. |
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The Body Articulate | 1 |
Divine Choreography and | 35 |
Capoeiras Ironic | 86 |
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