03257nam 22006855 450 991025477650332120200930214937.01-137-59870-010.1007/978-1-137-59870-7(CKB)3710000000653395(SSID)ssj0001669054(PQKBManifestationID)16461343(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669054(PQKBWorkID)12711355(PQKB)11007949(DE-He213)978-1-137-59870-7(MiAaPQ)EBC4716662(EXLCZ)99371000000065339520160430d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrIlê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa[electronic resource] /by Niyi Afolabi1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (XXVIII, 288 p.) African Histories and Modernities,2634-5773Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-137-57817-3 1-349-88803-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.African Histories and Modernities,2634-5773Africa—HistoryEthnology—AfricaAmerica—HistoryArtsAfrican Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/714000African Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411030History of the Americashttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718000Artshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/416000BrazilRace relationsBrazilCivilizationAfrican influencesAfrica—History.Ethnology—Africa.America—History.Arts.African History.African Culture.History of the Americas.Arts.394.250981Afolabi Niyiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut946326BOOK9910254776503321Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa2137986UNINA