ETHNOMUS 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Soul Music, Racial Democracy, Afro-Brazilians
21 Apr 2016
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Re-africanization of samba push to nationalize samba, take out of neighborhoods and make it bigger. African roots of brazilian culture, except not actually the case because there"s a veil of racial democracy, but these people were really struggling. With black liberation movements in africa in 60s and 70s, people became more aware of this strive toward freedom. A lot of same influences in brazil as in jamaica. Inspiration from icons like malcolm x, soul music. Olodum brought in more popular music, reggae samba reggae. Afro group people who do go work for the neighborhood, engage young people, finding a meaningful path in life through youth percussion program (grupo afro reggae youth.
