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African-Brazilian culture and regional identity in Bahia, Brazil / Scott Ickes.

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This book examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, Bahian elites began to recognize African-Bahian cultural practices as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé duri...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ickes, Scott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Series:New World diasporas series.
Subjects:
Black people > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History.
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Social conditions.
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Race relations.
Bahia (Brazil : State) > History.
Social classes > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Blacks.
Race relations.
Social classes.
Social conditions
Brazil > Bahia (State)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Brazil's Black Rome and the remaking of Bahian regional identity
  • Salvador, Bahia, 1930-1954
  • The revitalization of African-Bahian culture
  • Performing Bahia: public festivals, samba, and African-Bahian agency
  • Rituals of inclusion: evolving discourses of Bahianness
  • Carnival of the people: Batucadas and AfoxĂ©s
  • The project of regional identity formation: culture, politics, and tourism
  • Conclusion and epilogue : cultural politics in Bahia.

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