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    Samba

    Part of Vintage Departures

    Author Alma Guillermoprieto
    Paperback
    $20.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    5.25"W x 8"H x 0.6"D  
    On sale Jul 30, 1991 | 256 Pages | 9780679732563
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    Guillermoprieto lived for a year in the villages surrounding Rio de Janeiro to learn samba and take part in Rio's carnival parade.  Samba is an exhilarating account of her experiences--as well as a cogent, lucid examination of the history and culture of black Brazilians--full of provocative insights into the aesthetic and ritual of samba, as well as the music's place in the culture of Brazil.
    © Gregory Allen
    Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City. View titles by Alma Guillermoprieto
    "May well be the single best book ever written about the central place of music in the life of the Third World."--Washington Post Book World

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    Guillermoprieto lived for a year in the villages surrounding Rio de Janeiro to learn samba and take part in Rio's carnival parade.  Samba is an exhilarating account of her experiences--as well as a cogent, lucid examination of the history and culture of black Brazilians--full of provocative insights into the aesthetic and ritual of samba, as well as the music's place in the culture of Brazil.

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    © Gregory Allen
    Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City. View titles by Alma Guillermoprieto

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    "May well be the single best book ever written about the central place of music in the life of the Third World."--Washington Post Book World

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