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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254776503321

Autore

Afolabi Niyi

Titolo

Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa [[electronic resource] /] / by Niyi Afolabi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-59870-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVIII, 288 p.)

Collana

African Histories and Modernities, , 2634-5773

Disciplina

394.250981

Soggetti

Africa—History

Ethnology—Africa

America—History

Arts

African History

African Culture

History of the Americas

Brazil Race relations

Brazil Civilization African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.