Theft of Carnaval

A video of Río's Carnaval in the "Sambódromo" - take it for the visuals, not the dodgy historical content:


A "pagode": neighborhood samba


Samba for export: "Embassadress of Samba" Carmen Miranda:

Funk Carioca

US DJ Diplo on funk in the favelas of Rio

Favela on Blast intro (USA version with Diplo's voice) from Leandro HBL on Vimeo.

Favelas

Favelas overview with Feira de Acari song_(Favela on Blast) from Leandro HBL on Vimeo.

Preparing for the funk dance (from the documentary "Favela on Blast")

Baile Funk dos Prazeres_(Favela on Blast) from Leandro HBL on Vimeo.

1980s Miami Bass

Funk

Favela on Blast (Dj Marlboro)_Study from Leandro HBL on Vimeo.

Funk

Live montage with MPC by Dj Sany Pitbull_(Favela on Blast) from Leandro HBL on Vimeo.

Afro-Reggae (trailer from the documentary "Favela Rising")

A little more from "Favela Rising"

"Music of Resistance" documentary by Al Jazeera English, hosted by a member of the UK's
Asian Dub Foundation (whose name I forget)

Part II of the same

Last but not least, AfroReggae's websites:
In Portuguese: http://www.afroreggae.org/wp/
In English (from the UK-based, AfroReggae-associated organization Favela to the World): http://www.favelatotheworld.org/

Trinidad - Carnival
Hot Hot Hot (Arrow) - 1980


Trinidad Carnival 2009


Bacchanal (Destra García)


Carnival Costume Competition



Jamaica - Women
Dancehall Queen (1997) - Full Movie


Romantic Call (Patra w/ YoYo) - Randomly featuring Tupac


Man is the Least (Lady Saw)




I've Got Your Man (Lady Saw)


Homophobic Jamaican Dancehall
Chi ChiMan (TOK)


Dem Bow (Shabba Ranks)


Wayne Marshall of wayne&wax on the tight pants phenom in Jamaica here

Carnivals
Tambu Bamboo - Trinidad




Rara (Haiti)


Carnaval (Rio, Brazil)


Carnaval (Salvador, Brazil - Ilê Ayé group)


Samba-Reggae - O canto da cidade (Daniela Mercury)

More samba

Samba from Brazil

Characteristics of samba:
multiple drums,
tambourine (listen for the jingles)
bass drum
cavaquinho (stringed instrument)
bass drum
Incidentally, the song refers to Brazil's current drug wars: "He has coca in the fridge."

Maculelê stick-fighting in Brazil

February 15 Assignment

The reading for this class is:

Röhrig Assunçao, Matthias. Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art. (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), 32-66

The entire book is on Blackboard - please just read pp. 32-66 (I saw from your comments that some foyou suffered through my whole chapter instead of reading just the specified pages...)

The question:
How does the specific case of the capoeira dance/fight/game/music show the kinds of syncretism between African cultural groups and/or between African descendants and others that we've been talking about in the class? As a bonus question (which you can get to if you have the space in your response), how does capoeira exemplify the kinds of ethics and sociality that we talked about today?

You can see (and hear) that last question all over capoeira, as in the video below, a capoeira game between Mestre Cobra Mansa (without bandanna) and Mestre Jogo de Dentro (bandanna):