Brazilian dancers and Samba in Chicago: in the limits of the other expectations

Authors

  • Bernadete Beserra

Keywords:

cultural migration, brazilian dance, colonialism and exoticism, global markets

Abstract

Based on the history of Taís, samba player and Brazilian dance business in Chicago, this article reflects on the ways in which samba and Brazilian samba players are transformed to meet the perspectives and expectations of consumers and agents that make up the Brazilian cultural market in the city. . Immigrant since the mid-1980s, Taís circulates through the “Midwest” rebuilding and negotiating samba with different clienteles and learning about the possibilities and limits of the exotic. Not body-by-body dedicated to market conquest and reconfirmation -- and eager to reconcile what pleases the other with its own understanding and experience of Brazil -- new ideas of Brazil and Brazilianness only built and disseminated in the United States.

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Published

2014-05-30

How to Cite

Beserra, B. (2014). Brazilian dancers and Samba in Chicago: in the limits of the other expectations. Revista Ra Ximhai , 10(1), 41–55. Retrieved from https://raximhai.uaim.edu.mx/index.php/rx/article/view/630

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2014): enero-junio

Section

Artículos científicos

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