Samba:resistance in Motion

..". provides dance studies with much needed data and ideas for analyses which will look further than dance-as-text, or dance-as-reflection-of-culture." -- Dance Research Journal "Browning employs her perspectives as a dancer and literary theorist in this very readable book on various dance forms in contemporary Brazil." -- Choice ..". a work that is not only evocative, but provocative. " -- Bulletin of Latin American Research Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer, fully engaged in the dance cultures of Brazil and of Brazilian exile communities in the U.S.Browning, Barbara is the author of 'Samba:resistance in Motion' with ISBN 9780253328670 and ISBN 0253328675.