A Respectable Spell Douglas Braun Illuminating the power of parody

Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation

The crime described in A Double Life and the Detectives is less of a whodunit and more of a whydunit

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In a Different Voice (coined by Harvard University Press as "The little book that started a revolution")

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A Respectable Spell Douglas Braun Illuminating the power of parodyA landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth century origins to its emergence as a distinctive genre in the 1930s. Merging storytelling with theory, Carlos Sandroni profiles performers, composers, and others while analyzing the complex ideologies their music can communicate in their lyrics and rhythms, and how the meaning of songs and musical genres