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Samba
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 kings, and dancing skill is more prized than power.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Jul 30th, 1991
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.22in - 0.57in - 0.43lb
- EAN: 9780679732563
- Categories: • Latin America - South America• South America - General• Customs & Traditions
About the Author
Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City.
Praise for this book
"May well be the single best book ever written about the central place of music in the life of the Third World."--Washington Post Book World