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

• Autore: Afolabi Niyi
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXVIII, 288 p.)
• Disciplina: 394.250981
• Soggetto topico: Africa—History; Ethnology—Africa; America—History; Arts; African History; African Culture; History of the Americas
• Soggetto geografico: Brazil Race relations; Brazil Civilization African influences
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
• ISBN: 1-137-59870-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910254776503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African Histories and Modernities, . 2634-5773