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Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa / by Niyi Afolabi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Afolabi, Niyi., Author.
- Series:
- African Histories and Modernities, 2634-5781
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- America--History.
- America.
- Arts.
- African History.
- African Culture.
- History of the Americas.
- Local Subjects:
- African History.
- African Culture.
- History of the Americas.
- Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XXVIII, 288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ilê Aiyê redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. Deploying Yoruba performative cosmology and costumes, the discussion of 'race' is inevitable as Ilê Aiyê questions the economically marginalizing status of Afro-Brazilians.
- Contents:
- Carnival in Africa and its diaspora
- Emergence of an Afro-carnival agency
- Mãe Hilda: matriarchy, Candomblé, and Ilê Aiyê
- Aesthetics of Ilê Aiyê's African(ized) carnival costumes
- Masquerades of Afro-femininity, beauty, and politics
- Vovô: the man, his vision, his legacy
- Politics of Afro-carnival music
- (Un)masking the Afro-carnival organization.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137598707
- 1137598700
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