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“Quilombo was born out of the necessity of preserving all Afro influence in Brazilian culture. We want to draw the Brazilian people’s attention to the roots of Black Brazilian art.” […]
“Quilombo was born out of the necessity of preserving all Afro influence in Brazilian culture. We want to draw the Brazilian people’s attention to the roots of Black Brazilian art.” […]
“Of the 7,000 constituents, I am 1”. This phrase, printed on the carnival block Cacique de Ramos’s emblem in the 1970s, attracted the visual artist Carlos Vergara’s attention to what […]
Cacique de Ramos’ most characteristic costume is a surprising synthesis of Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous roots as represented by Hollywood. The brothers Ubirajara, Ubiracy and Ubirany, who were among the block’s […]
As they lost ground in the samba schools’ courts, where the carnival parade’s theme song, the samba-enredo, began to take up all the attention, sambistas found the essential creative and […]
Born in Little Africa and its surroundings, it was on the train tracks that Carioca samba spread throughout the city and reached the suburbs, where the population pushed out of […]
“The museum of the poor are the walls of the home.” This is how Tia Dodô, the first flag-bearer to carry the Portela Samba School’s flag, aptly expressed the feeling […]
Though samba is an invention involving many voices, throughout the decades, there has been a rise in samba culture of tutelary characters who are revered, even internationally, for consolidating and […]
Heitor dos Prazeres was a restorer at the Ministry of Education’s Laboratory for the Conservation and Restoration of Historic Heritage Paintings. In this photographic essay, Carlos Moskovics goes beyond documenting […]
Professionalization introduced documents into the lives of sambistas that hitherto had been foreign to them, such as employment contracts and corporate registration. At the other extreme, it also led to […]
From the 1930s onwards, composing, playing and singing samba ceased to be a transgression and became a profession. Although they were still far from being on a level playing field […]