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My Love Affair with CarnavalFACETED SEQUINS glimmering in the light, beads feverishly shaking, infectious mechanical rhythms keeping time, deep pounding heart beats, glistening bronzed skin. Thousands of synchronized arms and legs moving in unison. Dizzying bodies spinning in what seems like never ending eternal circles. A stream of moving platforms transformed into jungles, beaches and mystical landscapes. Doctors, house-keepers, students, movie-star actors, all clad with brightly hued feathers. An intangible communal energy filled with releasing spirit, celebrating life, and being present. This is Carnaval. Carnaval is a lover that welcomed me with open arms (continued...)
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Rio de Janeiro : a food biography by Marcia ZoladzRio is an international city and destination hot-spot for night-life, business, and culture. This book looks at the lifestyle and the foods that help complement it, while offering a cultural guide to the city and its inhabitants.
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Samba by Alma GuillermoprietoA Mexican dancer and journalist in Rio de Janeiro describes the life and culture of Black Brazilians, drawing on her experiences with samba players in Rio's slums. For one year, Alma Guillermoprieto lived in Manguiera to learn the ritual of samba–the sensuous song and dance marked by a rapturous beat–and to take part in Rio’s renowned carnivale parade.
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The mystery of samba : popular music & national identity in Brazil by Hermano ViannaSamba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. But how did Brazil become "the Kingdom of Samba" only a few decades after abolishing slavery in 1888? Hermano Vianna shows that the nationalization of samba actually rested on a long history of relations between different social groups--poor and rich, weak and powerful--often working at cross-purposes to one another.
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Carnival in Rio
by Helmut Teissl
Teissl's vibrant, color photos capture the unique pageantry and euphoria of the world's largest party.
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Rio, I love you /“Rio, I Love You” is the third installment in the Cities of Love series—films composed of several shorts by different directors, created as a romantic homage to a particular place.
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Black OrpheusYoung lovers Orfeu (Breno Mello) and Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn) run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death (Ademar Da Silva) and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira) and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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Show Me Rio! The Authentic Rio de Janerio Experience
The best way to discover a city is through its people. In this film, notable Rio residents like artist Vik Muniz, model Andrea Dellal, singer Chico Buarque, designer Oskar Metsavaht and mayor Eduardo, amongst others who show us "their" Rio de Janeiro. The amazing Tijuca Forest, the Carnival, the Sunday feijoadas in the favelas, the beaches, the night life and much more..... A fabulous, complete insider's guide to Rio.
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Favela rising
Follows the reggae musical project begun in one of Rio de Janeiro's worst neighborhoods by Anderson Sá after seeing his friends and family living in a culture of endless violence
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