Darién J Davis

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture presents a nuanced transnational analysis of the development, production, reception, and legacy of the 1958 movie Black Orpheus. It highlights the role of new Afro-Brazilian actors, musicians, and performers and their interlocutors in the circulation of Afro-Brazilian popular music.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978844148
• ISBN-10: 197884414X
• Artikelnr.: 73784312

Autorenporträt

DAIRÉN J. DAVIS is a professor and the chair of Africana studies at Rutgers University–Newark. He is the author of four books, three edited volumes, and more than 40 essays and articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction:  From Stage to Technicolor
Part I: The Making of Black Orpheus
                                                           
Chapter 1: Imagining A Brazilian Black
Orpheus                                                    
Chapter 2:  The Black Cast    
Chapter 3:  The
Soundtrack                                                                                       
Chapter 4:  Oblique Gazes: The Transnational Reception of Black
Orpheus           
Part II:  Black Orpheus Legacies and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian
Culture 
Chapter 5: Transnational Lights Beyond Black
Orpheus                                          
Chapter 6: Bossa Negra in the United
States                                           
Chapter 7: Baden Powell and Maria d’Apparecida in
Paris                                      
Conclusion
                                                                                                                
Epilogue                                                                                                                     
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index