1st Edition
Samba, Blues and Jazz Love, Money and Race in Brazilian and American Music
1 Introduction: Sing Your Sorrows in Three Minutes; 2 The Origins; 3 Why Work?; 4 Powerful Women; 5 Nothing But Money Is Sweeter than Honey; 6 Racial Relations; 7 Everyone Wants to Play in Paris; 8 Interactions between Brazilian and American Popular Music; 9 Conclusion
Biography
Ruben George Oliven is a professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. A former Fulbright scholar, he has held visiting professorships at several universities, including the University of California-Berkeley, Brown University, Dartmouth College, University of Illinois, Emory University, the University of Paris, and Leiden University. He is the recipient of the Érico Vannucci Mendes Prize for his distinguished contributions to the study of Brazilian culture. His research focuses on urbanization, national and regional identities, popular culture and music, and the symbolic dimensions of money.
