Dorival caymmi e doce morrer no marbles

I want to say here with a lot of deep love in beautiful words that national music reveals what we are because its lyrics can formalize us under our dilemmas that we trace in full life that has in our soul a little piece of Brazil in which national rock is made under a genuineness more focused on the daily life of young Brazilians who spend their teens as a film more focused on their lives, we simplify a list of facts and ideas that makes us react under a fearless fantastic desire where all unmotivated stories of dreams are described between beautiful fantasies we look for answers from the past to the future in which we are simplified by a harmony that applies humor, character, love, hate, fear, adventure in all the shades that life proposes to us under an ego of happy living in which we it implies resuscitating under the old and restless foolishness of the youth that teaches us to live and we need to improve the old republic that may be a little alienated with its desires. developments that excite us to prescribe in lyrics some reforms that maybe rock can console us because Brazil needs to grow together with the people who love their rights and that music can unite and change great generations facilitating the progress and growth of the youth it made Brazil grew and united all classes under a popular right to conquer life and thus we became more Brazilians and let's talk about the new scholarship that showed the fundamental origin of our Brazilian people that sprouted like a seed under several Brazilian states and made us understand the realistic and cultural work of the Brazilian who was born between rivers and navigating seas that today are Portuguese stories that colonized our Brazil and Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the Portuguese constituted the overwhelming majority of immigrants in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Distributed throughout the city, they dominated certai

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Revolt of the Saints

Revolt of the Saints Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy john f. col l ins Duke University Press  Durham and London  2015

© 2015 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-​­free paper Designed and typeset by Julie Allred, BW&A Books, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-​­in-​­Publication Data Collins, John F., 1965 April 19– Revolt of the saints : memory and redemption in the twilight of Brazilian racial democracy / John F. Collins. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.

isbn 978-0-8223-5306-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-9570-6 (e-book) isbn 978-0-8223-5320-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Pelourinho (Salvador, Brazil)—Social conditions. 2. Pelourinho (Salvador, Brazil) —Race relations. 3. Blacks—Brazil—Salvador. I. Title.

f2651.s136p4535 2015 981'.42—dc23 2015008870 Cover photo by John Collins Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of Queens College, City University of New York, and the Queens College Foundation, which provided funds toward the publication of this book.

To F. W. Manasek

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Being, through the Archive  1 1 “The Eighteenth Battalion of Love”: Failure and the Dissemination of Misinterpretation  44 2 Letters to the Amazons  102 3 Prostitution’s Bureaucracy: Making Up People in the “City of Women” 141 4 A Metaphysics for Our Time: Pe­lou­ri­nho Properties, Bahian Social Bodies, and the Shifting Meanings of Rams and Fetuses  181 5 Treasure Tales and National Bodies: Mystery and Metaphor in Bahian Life  215 6 “But Madame, What If I Should Need to Defecate in Your Neighborhood?” 266 7 “Chatty Chatty Mouth, You Want to Know Your Culture”  305 Conclusion: Saints, Not Angels  345 Appendix: Acronyms Used  363 Notes 365 Reference