Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil Regional & Ethnic in less than a decade

in less than a decade

Jenné Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Food--fluffy biscuits

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780525647072

one hardly envisions vast numbers of European and North American Evangelical Protestants

Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl)

Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil Regional & Ethnic in less than a decadeIn November 1916, a young Afro Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple actclaiming ownership of a musical compositionset in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had