Afro-Brazilian Culture in London: Images and Discourses in Transnational Movements

Giving visibility to urban change in Rio de Janeiro through digital audio-visual culture: A Brazilian webdocumentary project and its circulation

“…In October 2009, Rio de Janeiro's election as the first South American host to the Olympics meant that the city's time had also come. 2016: 23As part of this raised profile, Brazilian 'cultural manifestations' (Frangella 2013) have gained greater presence and visibility outside of Brazil since the early 2000s. Although some familiar and long-held stereotypes about Brazil have persisted in these manifestations, there has also been a shift, with elements and references to urban Brazil, and specifically to Rio's favelas, occupying an increasingly prominent position (Leu 2007;Frangella 2013).…”

“…2016: 23As part of this raised profile, Brazilian 'cultural manifestations' (Frangella 2013) have gained greater presence and visibility outside of Brazil since the early 2000s. Although some familiar and long-held stereotypes about Brazil have persisted in these manifestations, there has also been a shift, with elements and references to urban Brazil, and specifically to Rio's favelas, occupying an increasingly prominent position (Leu 2007;Frangella 2013). Interest in Rio was also boosted in the run-up to the World Cup and Olympics, as the international media increased their presence in the city, with some observers pointing to a greater sensitivity to the complexity of Rio's favelas in reporting during this period (Williamson 2016;Bailey et al 2017).…”

A multi-sited ethnography on cultural scenes and international migration

“…I used a restricted sense of culture, with a focus on performances of dance, music, arts or religion that are defined and advertised by exclusive cultural content attached to Brazil. According to Frangella (2013), it is possible to understand these events as cultural scenes, as social spaces organized in a hierarchy of importance in terms of symbolic and social capital. Following the work of Ribeiro (1999) in San Francisco and Coimbra de Sá (2011) in New York, I planned to observe and analyze select gatherings and celebrations to identify how gender, race, stereotypes and images were configurated and mobilized in narratives that structured Brazilian identity, ethnic groups and social boundaries.…”

Dance And Know You Are A Part: The Instrumentality Of Performative Politics And Dance In The Configuration Of Local Social Memory And Afro-Brazilian Identity And Agency In Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

“…Pearl Primus (Perpener 2005, 168) As we have seen with samba, a dance developed in Afro-Brazilian communities (Desmond 1997) and with capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art with a rich and troubling history, narratives of Brazilianness constantly present these forms dissociated from and with no consideration of the historical context that surrounds them (Frangella 2013). In Perpener's account of Primus' travels during her dance career, her trip to the South in 1944 is of particular importance here.…”