2014
DOI: 10.1353/lbr.2014.0009
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A negra essencializacao do samba

Abstract: Samba's identification with the Brazilian black ethnicity figurates as somewhat immediate and unquestionable, as if it existed since the "origins" of this musical genre. What is ignored, however, is that such representations began to be asserted in the 1970s. The Civil Rights movements in the US and the valorization of black ethnicity in Brazil led some artists to favor the interpretation that turned Samba into an expression of a black cultural "purity. " I analyze the conditioning elements of the path followe… Show more

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“…In the 1970s, Nei Lopes, Antônio Candeia Filho, Martinho da Vila, and Leci Brandão, among other musicians, engaged with aesthetic or intellectual currents related to black emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. Nevertheless, as I have pointed out elsewhere (Bocskay, 2012; 2017), it is simply untrue that “black causes” were uncommon in Brazil before the 1970s (Fernandes, 2014: 133). Founded by members of the Frente Negra Brasileira, which was dissolved in 1937, only six years after its birth, as Vargas closed down electoral politics (Andrews, 1991: 238), the weekly Afro-Brazilian newspaper from São Paulo A Voz da Raça (The Voice of Race) forged the slogan “Racial Prejudice in Brazil Only We Blacks Can Feel.” Operating from 1933 until 1937, the newspaper published a short manifesto in its inaugural March 1933 issue, titled A Voz da Raça , in which its editors announced that the newspaper “appears at a time in which we need to make known, at present, tomorrow, and always, the interests and communion of the ideas of race, because other newspapers, long-established ones, out of political disdain, have abandoned such interests.”…”
Section: Opening the Archive: Silencing Black Perspectives In Rio’s S...mentioning
confidence: 96%
“…In the 1970s, Nei Lopes, Antônio Candeia Filho, Martinho da Vila, and Leci Brandão, among other musicians, engaged with aesthetic or intellectual currents related to black emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. Nevertheless, as I have pointed out elsewhere (Bocskay, 2012; 2017), it is simply untrue that “black causes” were uncommon in Brazil before the 1970s (Fernandes, 2014: 133). Founded by members of the Frente Negra Brasileira, which was dissolved in 1937, only six years after its birth, as Vargas closed down electoral politics (Andrews, 1991: 238), the weekly Afro-Brazilian newspaper from São Paulo A Voz da Raça (The Voice of Race) forged the slogan “Racial Prejudice in Brazil Only We Blacks Can Feel.” Operating from 1933 until 1937, the newspaper published a short manifesto in its inaugural March 1933 issue, titled A Voz da Raça , in which its editors announced that the newspaper “appears at a time in which we need to make known, at present, tomorrow, and always, the interests and communion of the ideas of race, because other newspapers, long-established ones, out of political disdain, have abandoned such interests.”…”
Section: Opening the Archive: Silencing Black Perspectives In Rio’s S...mentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Os detratores ainda acusavam os adeptos do soul de traidores das tradições culturais brasileiras, mais particularmente do samba. Embora apresentando-se hoje como expressão de resistência cultural afro-brasileira, o samba, a partir da década de 1930, passou por um processo de apropriação por parte das classes médias, das elites e dos regimes autoritários, a ponto de ter se convertido em instrumento de propagação oficial e símbolo da "brasilidade", com destaque para a sua narrativa de celebração à mestiçagem, que supostamente caracterizaria a nação (Fernandes, 2014). À luz dessa concepção de "brasilidade", até sambistas negros chegaram a espinafrar o movimento soul pela sua falta de autenticidade cultural, à medida que atentava contra as raízes da nacionalidade.…”
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