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By Alma Guillermoprieto

By Alma Guillermoprieto

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Jul 30, 1991 | ISBN 9780679732563

Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto
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Jul 30, 1991 | ISBN 9780679732563

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About Samba

For one year, Alma Guillermoprieto lived in Manguiera, a village near Rio de Janeiro, to learn the ritual of samba–the sensuous song and dance marked by a rapturous beat–and to take part in Rio’s renowned carnivale parade.

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About Alma Guillermoprieto

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… More about Alma Guillermoprieto

Product Details

Category: Travel: Central & South America | Performing Arts | Travel Writing

Paperback | $16.95
Published by Vintage
Jul 30, 1991 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679732563
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Praise

"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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